I'm getting more spam than the amount that I can stand in my blog. Comments are moderated, so the public is not suffering that, only me. From time to time I go to my dashboard and clean the spam. I'm afraid that I delete some legit comment in these spam-cleaning-fevers, or, more probably, that a legit comment waits in the queue for several days, just because I'm lazy to deal with spam and let days pass by (until the fever comes).

I think I'm going to follow the wisdom of @Bradley M. Kuhn and link to a pump.io note for comments on my blog posts (disabling them in Wordpress.com). I usually post a notice when I write something in my blog, so the only task is to update the blog post with the pump.io URL of the thread for comments.

While Wordpress.com allows to write comments quickly, without need of an account (you write just a name and an email, and the comment), in pump you need to have an account and sign in to comment. That looks as a bad thing, a barrier for people to participate. But of course, it stops spam :)

After thinking about it a bit, it's a federated service, they can choose the pump server that they want, they can create a fake account, they don't need to provide personal information... and it's another way to promote one of the social networks where I live. Other systems link to facebook, twitter, or other places, and those ones they don't have any of the advantages of being here in this federated free-software powered social network :)

If anybody don't want to use pump.io but wants to comment, other ways to reach me or the related blog post are:

• Comment in the GNUSocial fediverse: the post announcing the thread for each blog post will be propagated to my quitter.se account too.

• While I'm still using Twitter, they can comment on the corresponding tweet, but beware that I'm seriously thinking about closing my account there, since I rarely use it and don't like the platform.

• Drop me an email, I can post the comment on behalf of that person (if you want your comment to be "anonymous", please state it in the email).

So now it's decided, and this is the first post of this new experiment. This text is posted in my blog too, and you can comment here :)