[vshabanov]

Thank you for information. It seems that Salmon is used in Diaspora so it somehow could work.

> But that started with a privacy scandal

What was the privacy scandal?

> The rule of thumb is that the problems stay the same, but the syntax and the name changes.

What problems are? I suspect that there should be problems with spam as anybody could add their comments (although protocols seems to contain some countermeasures) and maybe some kind of DoS of anybody "posting" too many comments. But what other problems are?