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Disqus. Would be great to add federated comments to any news, blog or static site.
There's already a way to do this using Mastodon and a bit of Javascript. I use that on my flashlight review website and also link the comments to [email protected].
It's not as slick a UX as Disqus of course, and it would be cool if somebody made that.
It's hacky and not something a professional site would use. Cannot moderate comments for example.
I certainly can moderate comments; I am the admin of the Mastodon server in question.
What wouldn't work so well is to host comments on someone else's Mastodon server, so it's not a good fit for a low-tech/low-overhead site. There's definitely a space for something with a lower barrier to entry, but I don't think it fits well with the nonprofit, community-oriented approach to servers running most of the fediverse. Those users would be best served by a commercial subscription service.