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At least for Mastodon comments, there are two easy ways:

- Run the comments on an instance you moderate

- Even better, only show comments that your account has favourited.

More details on the last one here:

https://hci.social/@ryanatkn/111983960076822015

>>jszymb+(OP)
> Even better, only show comments that your account has favourited.

Yeah I like this solution. Might try explore this approach

>>aranw+q
How is this different from any other self hosted solution; you've still got to manage spam yourself. Might as well go self hosted.

>>_hyn3+M
I have a static site. Self hosted would mean I’d need a database and I think right now I want to keep the static generation. Happy to try self hosted in future and write my own solution but right now I got plenty of side projects

>>_hyn3+M
Spam isn't the only challenge of going self-hosted and it's cool to tie into an existing ecosystem for identity. Also it's pretty neat that people can engage outside of your website while you still get to pick what gets surfaced on your own website.

>>jszymb+(OP)
Most Mastodon instances already have moderation. Can that be leveraged? Or does it tend to be too permissive?

If I only show comments from a well-moderated Mastodon instance that my main account is on, plus any instances that it federates with, does that not solve the problem?