I can't think of something more hostile than requiring an account on a 3rd party, totally unrelated, platform to post a comment on a blog.
I'll literally take ads and tracking over it.
I'll literally take ads and tracking over it.
To your point, though, I don't expect anyone without an account already to post, but my target audience largely already has such accounts.
This is a ridiculous expectation. Virtually nobody uses Mastodon, especially since BlueSky now is the open platform of choice.
But even without this, Twitter-like websites for me and a lot of other people have absolutely no usecase, despite being in the audience who could read your blog. Expecting all your visitors to have an account in nonsensical.
You may want to look around you...
This is massively down from 2 years ago where it was 1.7M: https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/10bimq2/comment/j...
You may want to look around you...
But maybe for your blog, you could use the same basic technique and do BlueSky comments instead.
You can run your own server, on your own hardware, make your own account, own every step of the stack, and can comment on there.
It's not just 3rd-party login, it's YOUR-party login.
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.
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.