> I don't expect anyone without an account already to post, but my target audience largely already has such accounts

This is a ridiculous expectation. Virtually nobody uses Mastodon, especially since BlueSky now is the open platform of choice.

But even without this, Twitter-like websites for me and a lot of other people have absolutely no usecase, despite being in the audience who could read your blog. Expecting all your visitors to have an account in nonsensical.

> Virtually nobody uses Mastodon

You may want to look around you...

Less than a million monthly active users: https://joinmastodon.org/servers

This is massively down from 2 years ago where it was 1.7M: https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/10bimq2/comment/j...

You may want to look around you...

I should be clear, you don't need a Mastodon account to read my blog and comments. But you do need a Mastodon account if you want to reply to my Mastodon post about my blog entry and have that show up in the blog.

But maybe for your blog, you could use the same basic technique and do BlueSky comments instead.