jetpack tiled gallery lightbox NO comments

Oh, and I tried just linking to media file instead of attachment but I still get the carousel, and comments.

Hi there!

Try this:

add_filter( 'comments_open', 'filter_media_comment_status', 10 , 2 );
function filter_media_comment_status( $open, $post_id ) {
    $post = get_post( $post_id );
    if( $post->post_type == 'attachment' ) {
        return false;
    }
    return $open;
}

Taken from here: https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-disable-comments-on-wordpress-media-attachments/

Thanks for sending me in the right direction. I couldn’t seem to google this properly. In the end I wound up unclicking ‘allow comments’. They did the same exact thing since I tried both.