I guess because it’s featureful, easy and they provide a hosted, white labeled service. It’s not great, but it’s a safe useable bet. Most organizations don’t want to worry about it too much

Discourse is more lightweight? It’s consistently the slowest loading software that I use and lags everywhere

A little too long and generic. I think Fediverse is fine as long as we treat it as a name and don’t force people to necessarily understand what it means. People understand names, they’re the most human thing there is

Possible sure, but aside from the effort to make such a bot, posting to my own community would mean that very few people would see it, aside from those who already follow the blog. I have to pick a lemmy community, at which point I may as well do the rest of the work too. Now maybe I could have an llm analyze my post, fetch a list of communities, and then pick a likely one, but honestly this is getting too complicated

Oh much simpler, I just make a post with my blog as a link, and supply that link to my site and it shows the comments from that link. As I said, not actually federated. It’s basically a sort of frontend.

Not at the moment, since that would require parsing the markdown