I also like the idea of boosting a blog post and having replies federate as comments.
We’ve all been trained by FB to discuss on the network instead of at the source. That fragments the conversation, and while sometimes that’s a good thing, sometimes it helps to, well, centralize.
Everyone who’s asked me for help using IFTTT with Mastodon has asked *here*, not on the blog post, so they haven’t seen other people who had the same problem & how they fixed it.