[raytube]

Did they? Alive and kicking in the UK.

[bombcar]

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.

[TheCleric]

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.