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Re:Adding Mastodon Comments to Your Blog by stared on Monday February 24, 2025 @03:59AM (#43157278)
I took a similar approach to linking to a comment thread, see e.g. Reddit links from https://p.migdal.pl/blog/2025/02/markdown-saves.

At the same time, I am an opportunist — sometimes it is Reddit, sometimes it is ix Xm, and sometimes it is here, the Hacker News. Different posts resonate with different audiences; and I don't want to link to a ghost town.

One issue is that there is no such thing as "the default platform for discussions"—no matter which one you choose, only a small fraction of readers will be interested in participating.

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Re:Adding Mastodon Comments to Your Blog by oneeyedpigeon on Monday February 24, 2025 @06:03AM (#43158157)
> One issue is that there is no such thing as "the default platform for discussions"

Isn't this what the various linkback mechanisms tried to solve? It seems like the ideal solution: let anyone comment wherever they want, from a tweet to their own follow-up blog post, and connect them all via automated notifications.

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Re:Adding Mastodon Comments to Your Blog by rchaud on Monday February 24, 2025 @09:59PM (#43167577)
It was, but the explosion of free hosted blogs quickly led to linkbacks being 90% scam sites instead of genuine responses.
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