Hey, #fediverse experts: I have a question. On my blog, I embed comments from the #fediverse. I also link to the comment thread on my instance. However, nobody else is using my instance. Is there a service where I can pass it a URL to a note, and it will ask the user what instance they use, then direct there instance to go get that note so they can respond? It currently looks like this, comments at the bottom; I'd like to replace the "this post on the fediverse" link with some way for users to pick their instance: stuff.interfree.ca/2025/05/02/sleep-solutions.html
@thenexusofprivacy Yup. Right now someone who stumbled on one of my posts later would have a hard time commenting. They'd have to have a fediverse account, and know how to search for a post by URL on that service. I really really don't want to run and moderate my own comment system, though. I'm thinking maybe the solution would be to create some kind of account on my instance (webanon@fed.interfree.ca or something) and then build a form that uses that account to submit replies to the thread from web commenters. But I'd have to figure out how to keep the spammers from filling out the form, and now I'm back into captchas and everything else that makes me not want to run my own comments system.
@fastfinge can you pinch how mastodon does it if you favourite a post via the web on a non-logged-on instance? Somehow it remembers it (probably in a cookie) as the second time you do it, it already has your home instance pre-populated.
