I am, I must admit confused about the WordPress.com reader
Read posts from all the sites you follow (even the ones that aren’t on WordPress.com), find great new reads, and keep track of your comments and replies in one convenient place: the WordP…
Source: Reader – WordPress.com Support
I think
- I was disappointed to find that I couldn’t actually launch a free website, and that would discourage me #TODO Is that still true
- I have another liveish site that needs this https://royhanfling.wordpress.com/, I am still open to making free websites
- I worry about registering my independent resources with a proprietary system but I have done this, I notice that my comments are registered under my name not the blog identities #TODO do I need to change this
- I am pleased with the universal identity across blogs using Gravatar #TODO
- there are a lot of Gravatar-enabled sites, especially blogs the BPS site is a good example
- it seems that if I use the reader, I can comfortably aggregate a whole lot of blog post
Gravatar is free and useful
Here is the gravatar site https://en.gravatar.com/
Automattic own gravatar https://wordpress.com/support/wpcc-faq/
Wikipedia mentions some security problems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravatar
What are these other services
VaultPress, Akismet, Crowdsignal, Gravatar, IntenseDebate,
https://www.intensedebate.com/ versus Disqus