@fraying no, the problem is: comments are dead, there are no more comments there is no more interaction without ActivityPub, Webmentions or brid.gy.
> In fact, most regular people would be very disturbed to find out that a comment they posted to a blog was reposted into a network they had no knowledge of or control over.
The plugin does not post comments from your visitors to the fediverse because of that reason. It only posts your answers.