Self-hosting a blog is lonely : readers don't create an account to comment on every self-hosted blog. This is my journey at the pursuit of welcoming comments from the Fediverse, going through Lemmy, then leading me to Ghost with a custom implementation.
Reply notifications, commenting history.
I don’t know about you, but I hate those, and wouldn’t want people to have to go through that, as I wouldn’t want to have to go through that.
That’s a lot more work, and it delays the conversation when replying to another visitor.