[shadowgovt]

Oh, that's supported (though the UX is not really ideal): if they're not on the same server as you, you can navigate to the post on its host server and you'll see all replies there. To join the conversation, you can hit reply on one of the posts and you'll get a UI popup to route you back to your own server to respond from there.

It's definitely not as clean as a centralized solution though.

[hoidofyolen]

This kind of UX is the main reason I personally dont use Mastodon. It's just not intuitive