How do I respond to your posts!?!?!?!

[robobenklein]

a random bystander asks

me: I would also like to respond to my posts

me 2: what is the best commenting system? you'd better not use disqus

me: of course not that's an awful privacy violating service, there's got to be something better out there!

me 2: hey look at these options:

• https://remark42.com/ has docker images already built! good set of social logins, no federated options though :/ , I like the user IDs and admin control, has google and github... not much else
• https://posativ.org/isso/ seems to be the most well known around here, though I'd have to package the container myself it looks like, wait... how do I require authentication? I don't want anon spam
• https://commento.io/ seems to have taken a SaaS stance... ah, they're on gitlab and also have a docker image! has gitlab and twitter auth on top of github and google
• https://schnack.cool/ never heard of this in my life, but look it has Mastodon auth! auth scopes seem to be all out of wack though (doesn't need twitter followers, so why?), demo kinda looks like garbage but I can write css ez

me: dang really all the features I want are split across the options...

[robobenklein]

feedback from friends has unilaterally agreed that remark42 is the best option here, implementation in progress...

[robobenklein]

implementation is live, still need to add more login methods