2025-02-21 Comments powered by Mastodon! I hate ads. I also hate tracking and bloat. But I didn't actually hate the latter quite enough to get rid of Disqus for comments. It was a free, good service, and you could turn off ads for the users (which I did). But recently they sent out a mail saying they were not longer offering a free ad-free option, and it's not worth paying for at my usage levels, so they got the boot. What to replace them with? The ultimate would be some kind of home-grown thing...