Ask HN: How to self-host comments on your otherwise static blog?

Article note: I'm still dealing with WordPress largely because I wanted to keep comments and most other systems are too shit for that. Holy shit does this situation make me wish for the now-dead dream of the actually-distributed Web, with something like the Microformats XFN stuff so everyone can converse from their own system and still tie it together, instead of even the technical folk saying "Just give it to the big ~~land~~ platform owners."