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Hubzilla has a few solutions relevant to this problem. None are perfect because Hubzilla works best with permissions when your connections are also using hubzilla - as then it can actually determine what permissions apply to remote observers and allow things like wall-to-wall posts/comments. The first would be a permission setting of 'anybody authenticated' for comment permissions. This works today for anybody using hubzilla - and also openid. Friendica auth would probably be easy to add. Diaspora or OStatus probably not - they don't have remote identity support. The second is to create a guest access token (sort of like a dropbox link) and give the access token permission to comment. Several folks have already used these for anonymous commenting. The only problem with the access token is that it's attached to one identity and you can't easily differentiate commenters. But it works today. There's also a two-way post/comment bridge to Wordpress but this doesn't really fit your problem space. Mentioning as it's related.
An ideal solution would be to provide unregistered (ideally moderated) comments just as Wordpress does. The ability would be pretty easy for a clever developer as this has been planned for some time and the data structures support it - just awaiting a motivated developer who wants it bad enough to roll up their sleeves and make it happen. The unregistered bit is almost trivial - just change the comment template to require name and email if the observer is unknown and register the identity on submission. The harder part is managing moderation. Not rocket science, but would take a couple days of work to create a module to list moderated comments and select an action and send out notifications so you know there are comments awaiting disposition.
I retired a few months ago so I have no personal stake in the outcome - I do my own thing these days and not really associated with hubzilla or any other open source project. I think hubzilla offers solutions to a much wider range of problems than most other projects in this space - but that's ultimately for you to decide. Most folks aren't looking for technical solutions but only network effects (whatever is popular at this moment in time). Best of luck solving this particular problem.