In reply to schopie1.

@schopie1, It also bears notice that we don't necessarily need to use Mastodon as a third party player for doing the distributed conversation. If your WordPress site has Webmention capability (typically using the Webmention and Semantic Linkbacks plugins and (ideally) has a theme that has reasonable support for microformats), then we could be talking website-to-website and let the native web be our platform rather than relying on Mastodon. Webmention is an evolution of the old refbacks, pingbacks, and trackbacks, but with some addition usability and display affordances as well as spam prevention.

You'll notice that as the result of the way I've got things set up, I've got a threaded copy of this full conversation on my site: https://boffosocko.com/2022/12/05/55812399/#comments