What are your plans for dealing with people who do not wish to have a third-party commenting layer they have no moderation power in forced upon them, and for the problem of a “let’s find weird people and mock them until they are on the verge of suicide” community like LJDrama/Something Awful/4Chan/Kiwifarms/etc starting to use Kontxt?

This is a problem that every “we made a comments layer for the entire web!” project has faced.

First impression harsh feedback: It takes too many seconds between opening your landing page and understanding what your product is. The first thing I should see is your product doing something I want. By the time I scrolled to the cute icons with aspirational text, I did not understand what it is. To actually see what any of the product looks like, I have to click a video and watch about 15 seconds of contentless title screens.

Hi, this looks a lot like this project:

https://github.com/DanilaFe/matrix-highlight

It that leverages the multiple possibilities of open standards like Matrix to make a really cool to highlight web page contents and fostering discutions, all from any server you want :D

Also another project, cited in the README of matrix-highlight:

https://github.com/opentower/populus-viewer

Ambitious! Cool idea, but its scope is so broad... I think your roadmap will need to include robust support for integration with related tools. For example, it's hard to imagine committing to creating highlights in an all-in-one service like this, vs something like Readwise, which lets me export highlights to my Obsidian vault.

I love everything about this idea. If any of you remember mybloglog which was acquired by yahoo back in the day, they had all the ingredients that were missing from the web back when the cool kids were calling in web2.0. I met and interacted with so many blog writers who were able to see me land on their website and followed my profile back to mine, opening up a whole new social experience for those who created on the web. I hope this service moves in that direction over time, providing an escape from the walled Gardens of social media today and bringing it back to the open web where it belongs. Why Google or others haven't decided to ship a similar service right in Chrome is beyond me .. instead of a me too offering that was Google Plus.. the open web itself is where those social interactions and connections to me make most sense.

Pretty cool, interested to see where you take this. Have you checked out Hypothesis? It's a similar tool thats been around for a long time: https://web.hypothes.is/

Hey David, congrats on the launch. Really happy to see the product here and all the best with the venture. David has been working hard on this for quite some time and regularly reaching out to different audiences in different mediums to collect feedback and work on product. I was part of the early test and I did really like the idea. It is quite comprehensive, for people organizing stuff in a workflow this will be a new change.

Some feedback:

- Teal & pink text look bad on white, it would pop out in dark theme.

- "All Browsers & Devices

    Bookmark a̶ ̶r̶a̶n̶d̶o̶m̶ this site."

My response is the same as any other third party commenting system. If you want to show annotations or comments directly layered on my website, forget about it. Or maybe pay me. Twitter, Facebook, et al, don't show this layered on my site but separately, on their own site.