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!Friendica Support many websites, like indiatimes.com use an embedded Facebook plugin to allow user comments. Is there an equivalent for #Friendica or some other fediverse protocol that could be used as a replacement?
I remember someone made a "Share Page" button supporting several decentralized social media platforms, but I'm not aware about any commenting widget.

The core issue is that if you have an active Facebook session, you're de facto logged in the Facebook widget on a news article page. This is possible because both the user account and the commenting widget source domain is the same. However this is rarely the case for decentralized social media users. Websites would have to pick one domain to serve the comment widget from, which may or probably may not be the domain any random Fediverse user signed up on, adding extra steps to be able to comment.
https://carlschwan.eu/2020/12/29/adding-comments-to-your-static-blog-with-mastodon/ is the closest that I know of, though it's for Mastodon rather than Friendica (I don't think Friendica has an equivalent to the Mastodon page that it uses).
This is good but it doesn’t allow visitors to comment directly on the article. Also Friendica exposes several Mastodon API endpoints so it may just work out of the box.
could not you just embed the HTML to the toot in question? (if this is dumb, its okay to let me know)
Simpler, use the above script and expose the Remote Comment link, with the form https://{mastodon domain}/interact/{toot id}?type=reply. I don't think we have a Friendica equivalent.
which should be fine, either add a repeater on Friendica, or just use your Friendica account to interact with the "blog" account you created on Mastodon, no?