If one is careful and marks up the html just so, then I suspect that Known will allow you to create a post and have it show as a . This post (and not a status update or a reply post) will serve as a test.
Of course, I'm not sure how one would add the proper class of u-in-reply-to
with markup, but I'll bet someone somewhere does this in a way that Jeremy could potentially replicate.
Of course one can do it by hand. Manual till it hurts and all that. But one shouldn't have to. I am not a developer so I don't know how hard it would be to give the New Post entry form the same Reply field that Status has. And logically, I would have thought a Post was more likely than a Status actually to be a reply.
Jeremy Cherfas, Jul 08 2017 on stream.jeremycherfas.net