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.
  • Handles@leminal.spaceEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Just looking at the Utterances site, this sticks out:

    No lock-in. All data stored in GitHub issues.

    …so you can just migrate those comments somewhere else if you don’t want to use Github anymore? If not, I’d call that textbook lock-in.

    • Jayjader@jlai.luEnglish
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      8 months ago

      For what it’s worth: I self-host gitea, and it gives me the possibility to import not only repos but also issues, projects, etc from GitHub, gitlab, bit bucket, and a handful of others.

      I don’t know if Utterances can work with gitea’s API. If it does, then in theory you should be able to migrate to gitea from GitHub for this use case.