I added a Bluesky comment section to my blog

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I added a Bluesky comment section to my blogPublished on January 24, 2026You can now view replies to this blog post made on Bluesky directly on this website. Check it out here! I've always wanted to host a comment section on my site, but it's difficult because the content is statically generated and hosted on a CDN. I could host comments on a separate VPS or cloud service. But maintaining a dynamic web service like this can be expensive and time-consuming — in general, I'm not interested in being an unpaid, part-time DevOps engineer. Recently, however, I read a blog post by Cory Zue about how he embedded a comment section from Bluesky on his blog. I immediately understood to benefits of this approach. With this approach, Bluesky could handle all of the difficult work involved in managing a social media like account verification, hosting, storage, spam, and moderation. Meanwhile because Bluesky is an open platform with a public API, it's easy to directly embed comments on my own site. There are other services that could be used for this purpose instead. Notably, I could embed replies from the social media formerly known as Twitter. Or I could use a platform like Disqus or even giscus, which hosts comments on GitHub Discussions. But I see Bluesky as a clearly superior choice among these options. For one, Bluesky is built on top of an open social media platform in AT Proto, meaning it can't easily be taken over by an authoritarian billionaire creep. Moreover, Bluesky is a full-fledged social media platform, which naturally makes it a better option for hosting a conversation than GitHub. Zue published a standalone package called bluesky-comments that allows embedding comments in a React component as he did. But I decided to build this feature myself instead. Mainly this is because I wanted to make a few styling changes anyway to match the rest of my site. But I also wanted to leave the option open to adding more features in the future, which would be easier to do if I w...