Stephen Downes

I haven't tried Talkyard as an alternative to Disqus for hosting comments, but this article describes his search and decision, and I have enough confidence in the author to pass it along. I'm sometimes tempted to reinstate comments for OLDaily, but I never did get enough comments for it to be worth spending much effort on (my feeds on Bluesky and Mastodon draw the occasional remark, but that's it).