Scripting News: The new blog discourse system, post 0:

The first thing to know is that all comments are blog posts. You write the comment on a blog that you own. And maybe that will be the only way anyone other than you will ever see it. But you don’t have to “go” to the blog to write the comment. You stay right where you are.

A comment is not in any way guaranteed space on the other person’s blog. Thus the spam incentive that all other comment systems have is not here. I think that’s a huge part of the problem, and it’s neatly solved.

I love where this idea is headed. In a lot of ways, it’s already here, but only the few of us that are actively trying to do it.

If the user experience continues to improve for regular people, maybe we can get back an open version of the blogger web.

The Gift of It’s Your Problem Now - apenwarr:

Free software is a gift.

Here’s the thing about gifts: the sender chooses them, not the recipient.

“Can you imagine having your entire adult identity wrapped up in something? Like, this is the only thing you’ve done? Can you imagine how hard it would be to admit that it has hurt people?”

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