I’ve been wanting to experiment with adding a comments section to posts and pages on my website for a while now. Rather than using one of those comments-as-a-service companies, I figured a lighter-weight solution would be re-using a social tool I’m already invested in: Mastodon.
I’ve been using one of the Javascript variants of this for a while. While that is a little heavier weight for the client than this completely static solution, it’s ultimately just a few kilobytes and minimal processing that’s fast even on old devices.