Commento
Privacy-friendly embeddable discussion widget
Commento is a privacy-friendly, embeddable discussion and comment widget that lets website owners add threaded conversations to any page. It supports moderation, voting, and avoids third-party trackers.
Key features
- Embeddable comment widget
- No tracking by default
- Voting and threading
- Moderation dashboard
Strengths
- Released under the MIT license
- Easy to set up — beginner-friendly
- First-class Docker support for quick deployment
- Active community (3.8k GitHub stars)
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