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We need an #RSS reader with "Reply" and "Repost" buttons. These actions would occur on a blog you connect with #Micropub or #XMLRPC, and use #WebMentions to notify the originating site.
@jsit Not exactly any RSS feed, but you can follow any blog just by searching for the blog's domain name, and it will find the feed for you. The missing piece (that we may add eventually) is pasting in a specific RSS URL. Basically in Micro.blog you follow people/domains, not feeds, even though of course it's all powered by feeds.
There are a number in the #IndieWeb community, generally under https://indieweb.org/Microsub#Clients - and in fact what pointed me to your post to reply to, all via Micropub and Webmentions 
@www.jvt.me Cool! What reader were you using? Can any of these readers just read standard RSS?
@jsit That’s what most Microsub readers do. Unfortunately—well, it was meant to be a good thing—they need a server to do the actual aggregating. I once built a self-hosted “traditional” feed reader with optional support for Microsub (and Micropub) clients—by default, everything is done through its (responsive, obviously) web interface. Although I now just use my WordPress feed reader plugin, which also has reply and like buttons.
@janboddez Yeah, I want something that’s easy for normal people.
A user of the app I’m describing shouldn’t have to know what RSS or Micropub are.
@jsit Yeah, the thing with even Micropub is that you’d have to input your site’s URL somewhere, and that your site would have to support not just Micropub but almost certainly IndieAuth as well, and …
I really like web feeds and webmentions and, I guess, microformats (which can be a pain to get right, nested `span` elements and all), but that’s where I think I’d draw the line. (And I too use a WordPress plugin to handle microformats for me. In fact, I now have my CMS do all of those for me. 
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@jsit I think micro.blog would be the closest thing to “something for normal people.” Or Mastodon, if you replace web feeds/webmentions with “ActivityPub.”
I had this silly idea for a WP multisite install that comes with domain mapping, Webmention, and microformats-ready themes. And a built-in feed reader. Not because I think WP is the best fit for such a thing, but because it’s what a lot of people happen to know (a little). (Actually, my own sites currently run on exactly that setup.)