Comment on Why doesn't Ghost v6 include Fediverse commenting ?
savvywolf@pawb.social 19 hours ago
So, to address the elephant in the room… Why does commenting on a blog post need any kind of account? Why not have fields for “name” and “comment body” and use capcha and/or manual approval to guard against spam?
Like, why does everything need to be tied to an account nowadays?
Why does commenting on a blog post need any kind of account?
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capcha
I don’t know about you, but I hate those, and wouldn’t want people to have to go through that, as I wouldn’t want to have to go through that.
manual approval
That’s a lot more work, and it delays the conversation when replying to another visitor.
My guess would be trolls and/or bullying
mbirth@lemmy.ml 19 hours ago
Because
A) Solving Captchas isn’t protecting from abuse/spam anymore. People in countries with cheap labour costs are being paid (or forced) to solve these for spam networks. And nowadays, LLMs can solve them almost better than any human. Manual approval is completely infeasible once you have a somewhat larger following.
Tying comments to some form of account is at least somewhat of a hurdle for spammers.
and
B) Some people want to keep ownership of their data. As long as the comment is tied to my account, I can easily find, edit or even delete it. Try that with some comment you made on some obscure blog 5 years ago; which address you don’t remember and with an email address you no longer have.
ICastFist@programming.dev 3 hours ago
Having an account won’t solve the problem with A, since spam accounts are a problem even in the fediverse
KaKi87@jlai.lu 18 hours ago
Of course, ownership, I somehow forgot about that, too much looking from the blogger side lol
But yes, 100%.