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Lol I knew I would get this kind of answer and downvotes.

You still have to make an account on a totally unrelated website. It's the shittiest experience one can think of.

But your excuse is "Hey actually you can also setup the whole application yourself before making the account to post a blog comment on an unrelated website, so that's actually super awesome!".

Absolutely ridiculous, and if any company you didn't like were to do something similar you would screech.




You would prefer to create a new account on every blog you visit and wish to comment on?


Usually blogs don't require creating an account to leave comments. Why present this false alternative when the common thing to do is just leaving a comment without creating an account?


> Usually blogs don't require creating an account to leave comments.

Even back before 2010, almost all blogging platforms had an option that would let the owner require log in to comment.

And it was fairly common, because of spam.


why would you need to create an account to leave a comment? the site owner can own the entire flow if they so wish, including creating an anonymous actor for the comment.




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