I hate disqus too much.
August 6, 2025 · ~6 min read
I’ve been running my blog without decent comments for years. Not by choice, really - I just couldn’t find a solution that didn’t suck.
Disqus? Slow, heavy, tracks users, and I don’t own anything. Plus it makes every page 100x slower to load.
Self-hosted solutions? Great in theory. (not really.) You’re signing up to manage users, moderate spam, maintain databases, and deal with all the headaches that come with running basically a miniature social platform. And if your users aren’t where you are, it’s probably slow as hell.
GitHub Issues as comments? Probably works for some developer blogs, but feels hacky and limits your audience to people with GitHub accounts.
No comments at all? Clean and simple, but you lose the conversations. Some of my favorite discoveries came from comment threads that went in unexpected directions.
I’ve been a Bluesky user for a while. Recently, the community has been feeling healthier than Twitter ever did, the API is designed, and this decentralized approach means I don’t necessarily have to be beholden to a single company. People have been doing some interesting things with Bluesky, like on-protocol blog content and using Bluesky comments as a comment system. Why not do some of that for myself?
Why Bluesky Actually Makes Sense
The more I thought about it, the more directly using Bluesky for comments made sense:
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