Hi John,
Yes, but.
A couple of things, one Audrey is talking about specific abusive comments.

I am ignoring thinking about this difficult stuff and riffing off this bit thinking about the idea of comments being on the commenter’s site but also displayed on the site commented on. I’ve been trying out a few things in this area, Known being interesting and the whole webmention thing. Webmentions, as I understand it would pull comments about my posts from all sort of places onto my comments. I’ve got one or two plugins active here that try this and it has pulled some comments in from twitter.

I am currently finding reading about indieweb concepts and owning your own space pretty interesting.