Remember a while back when Gab Dissenter got released? Via a browser plugin users would able to comment and discus websites and articles that wouldn't otherwise be possible because the comment section would be turned off or there was no comment section to speak off. This allowed users to discuss sites and articles outside the control of its operators. And this worked, it worked really great even. There was a move to decentralize commenting on the Internet and for a time it worked, and it was great!

However, the biggest flaw in this initiative was Gab. I am not a fan of the average content, so by extent its users and finally the comments and the discourse that followed from it. While I don't have a hate-boner for Torba and Gab, the mainstream media and the apparatchiks did. So pretty swift the plugin got wiped from Mozilla and Chrome stores and I haven't seen anything from them ever since.

Even back then I wanted an OpenSource solution that allowed for a self-hosted instance, possibly even federated. I didn't forget about it, nor did I actively pursue it, but it was somewhere living rent free in the back of my head. It was recently it came back to mind after the whole shitty polarized situation we are currently in and sites were doing their best to please their corporate overlords by censoring the fuck out of people.

So this is what I want to do is the following; Name the suite "Echos" or something. You install the Echo browser plugin. You point this to one or multiple server instances. These server instances are software called/running "echo-chambers" in which you leave your comments. So the whole thing is about leaving your echos on a page are a website.

But this is something I will start in the new year, because for the remainder of this year I will be studying for an exam.

What do you guys think?