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  "title": "chem-bla-ics",
  "description": "Chemblaics (pronounced chem-bla-ics) is the science that uses open science and computers to solve problems in chemistry, biochemistry and related fields.",
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      "name": "Egon Willighagen",
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      "url": "https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2025/08/13/integrating-comments-via-the-fediverse.html",
      "title": "Integrating comments via the Fediverse",
      "content_html": "<p>My <a href=\"https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2023/07/27/archiving-and-updating-my-blog.html\">old blog</a>\nhad (has) comments via the Blogger.com platform, but I did not have anything for the new blog. A couple of options\nare used, like Disqus and <a href=\"https://skerdiberberi.com/blog/utterances\">comments via GitHub</a>. However, these both\nhave the downside of a <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_lock-in\">vendor lock-in</a> and the whole point of moving\nmy blog was to break out from such lock-ins.</p>\n\n<p>Almost half a year ago I read <a href=\"https://tzovar.as/commenting/\">this post</a> by <a href=\"https://tzovar.as/about/\">Bastian</a>\nabout, well, <em>integrating comments via the Fediverse</em>. He explains a solution worked out in 2021 by\n<a href=\"https://fossacademic.tech/2021/12/16/CommentsTest.html\">Robert W. Gehl</a>. I liked this idea and had the blog\npost bookmarked for some time. But I did not get around working it <a href=\"https://github.com/egonw/blog2/commit/006b41822b46a935d159ca276cfab3a6a3b00e40\">out until Monday</a>.\nI had to do some <a href=\"https://github.com/egonw/blog2/commit/cc4f81db22d69d928352ee06ecad889286ae27bf\">CSS fixing</a>\nafter that, but I can now have fediverse-powered comments in my blog by adding a bit of YAML, like this:</p>\n\n<div class=\"language-yaml highlighter-rouge\"><div class=\"highlight\"><pre class=\"highlight\"><code><span class=\"na\">comments</span><span class=\"pi\">:</span>\n  <span class=\"na\">host</span><span class=\"pi\">:</span> <span class=\"s\">social.edu.nl</span>\n  <span class=\"na\">username</span><span class=\"pi\">:</span> <span class=\"s\">egonw</span>\n  <span class=\"na\">id</span><span class=\"pi\">:</span> <span class=\"m\">115009169485329450</span>\n</code></pre></div></div>\n\n<p>I have annotated a few posts now, and will have some curation to do. But when I have made such a link,\nthe this is what it will look like by default:</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"/assets/images/fedicomments1.png\" alt=\"\" /></p>\n\n<p>After clicking the button (I want to style that a bit better), it shows the fediverse reactions:</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"/assets/images/fedicomments2.png\" alt=\"\" /></p>\n\n<p>There are some things that I like to improve. For example, clicking the <em>reply</em>, <em>boost</em>, or <em>like</em>\nbuttons doesn’t do anything yet. But there is code around that will show a popup box to redirect you\nto your home fediserver. Let’s see how this evolves.</p>\n\n<h4>References</h4>\n<div class=\"csl-bib-body\">\n    <div class=\"csl-entry\">Greshake Tzovaras, B. (2025). Integrating comments via the Fediverse. In <i>Front Matter</i>. Front Matter. https://doi.org/10.59350/pr6zx-10397 <b>[cito:usesMethodIn]</b> <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.59350/pr6zx-10397\">CrossRef</a> <a href=\"https://qlever.scholia.wiki/doi/10.59350/pr6zx-10397\">Scholia</a></div>\n  </div>",
      "summary": "My old blog had (has) comments via the Blogger.com platform, but I did not have anything for the new blog. A couple of options are used, like Disqus and comments via GitHub. However, these both have the downside of a vendor lock-in and the whole point of moving my blog was to break out from such lock-ins.",
      "image": "https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/assets/images/fedicomments2.png",
      "date_published": "2025-08-13T00:00:00+00:00",
      "date_modified": "2025-08-13T00:00:00+00:00",
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