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News outlets all canned their comments sections - I see absolutely no reason why they'd want to bring back something even worse.

Did they? Alive and kicking in the UK.

The vast majority of US comment sections went to Disqus and then Facebook comments and then shuttered altogether.

Some smaller ones remain, but it's mostly gone.

And the ones that are left tend to be either filled with spam or content I'd describe as "YIKES".

If I own a media company the last thing I'm doing is investing in the IT and moderation infrastructure it takes to run a Mastodon instance.