I'm wondering if there is an effective method to follow a "thread" across different websites.
Exmple 1: this article
has drawn a bunch of interesting responses across the Web, includingExample 2: Since The Ecomodernist Manifesto was released, environmentalists of all stripes have been compelled to respond to it.
To me, the entire purpose of the Web is to be able to have people from all backgrounds discuss important matters like these. The promise of the Web was to be able to link all of these voices together. Two decades on that promise is largely unfulfilled. There are pingbacks, of course. But those are only used on a few platforms. They also have to be implemented by the OP. Usually when I find responses it's because I'm subscribed the right feeds, because I hunted them down, or sheer luck. Does anyone know of an effective way to index these kinds of threads?
Your two examples are different enough that I would usually choose different solutions.
The first one seems to revolve around the topic of "post capitalism." If I wanted to read a bunch of recent articles on that topic I would do a google news search and then restrict the date to a given time period (1 week, 1 month, etc). Sometimes I will do a general search for the term ("post capitalism") and then add in something like "forum" or "discussion" to the search to see what comments have come-up recently.
The second example has a solution which could be used for the first example in some cases as well. I'd just plug www.ecomodernism.org/ into google and see what other sites come up that link back to that page. Might be a news site or maybe a forum of some kind.
These "solutions" always end up leading me "down the rabbit hole" as I find additional sites within these pages that further expand my options to explore.