It would also be very nice to be able to link to as specific comment in a thread in a blog post or something liek that. It would be good to be able to expose a permalink and set it up so if that link is followed it goes to that comment (rather than just the start of the whole conversation), and maybe highlights it in some way to indicate that that is the comment being referenced?
I expect to be taken to the specific comment that caused the comment I clicked on to be made
You can make these mostly work now (on the web) by taking the post ID from the “comment” URL and then appending it to that URL (with some other text) as an HTML anchor:
E.g., for DrOct’s post I’m replying to here, the URL is micro.blog/DrOct/3166896 (it’s the URL of both the timestamp, because it’s a comment, and of the “Conversation” link I see for the post in my Mentions). The reply/comment’s post ID is 3166896, so micro.blog/DrOct/3166896#post_div_3166896 jumps me straight to that post in the Conversation (and it is highlighted in grey, too, since the post that corresponds to the URL is already highlighted in grey on the web and in the apps). Try it using this link.
It’s easy enough to work up a JS bookmarklet to generate that sort of link, which would help on the web, but not in the apps (and also wouldn’t solve Ron’s use-case, as I understand it from this and prior conversations with him).