Unlike social media microblogging, there’s not a great story for continuing the conversation of a blog post that’s part of the IndieWeb. Replying to a blog post most often takes the form of a reply to a POSSE1 syndication like a Mastodon post or promotion link on Hacker News.
If I read an article by Chris Coyier on answers to design questions, itself a response to Dan Mall’s answers to those same questions and want to reply, there’s little chance that either Chris or Dan would see my response and even less chance that I’ll know they saw it. I could definitely shoot them emails or mention them on Mastodon, but it would be really great if there were some better automated way to do this.
As an author
- A commenting system on each site, either self-hosted or using some embedded service like Disqus
- Outsourcing comments somewhere else, such as to the Fediverse or the comments section of a link aggregator
- Leave a note that if people want to reply to you they can reach you by email
- Set up a...
