@sacha the reason I use utterenc.es is that my org>hugo blog is already hosted on Github Pages for performance and reliability reasons. The biggest downside is that you need a github account to comment -- if people aren't developers or if they have philisophical objections (as you noted) then this is a barrier. I was wondering how I could integrate Mastodon with my blog posts, and see you have also been exploring this idea, so I'm keen to look more closely what you have been doing when I get a breather...
@MattEducator I'm on the way to figuring out how to add Mastodon toots to my new setup, and maybe the code might be something you can use as a building block when you have time. :) https://sachachua.com/dotemacs/index.html#mastodon-adding-mastodon-toots-as-comments-in-my-11ty-static-blog
May I run it on your comment to include it on that post?
@sacha certainly, go ahead
I'm not completely happy with my current ox-hugo blogging toolchain -- it works, but it is a bit kludgy and I think I can do better in terms of automation and workflow. Now that I've got a bit more experience under my belt, I might start looking again into further org mode publishing options.