I started to notice some thing weird while using Reddit, every link post from Condé Nast owned news outlet was getting a high amount of upvotes and awards while other publications had a very normal rate of awards( usually zero, with the exception of the sponsored ones) and upvotes.

That when I started to investigate this matter till I found out about this.

They are boosting their publications on Reddit on the major subreddits. They are trying to give their publications a advantage over all the other news outlets.

They have the ability to kill the other news outlets if they keep doing that. Avoid them as if your freedom is dependent on it.

  • @Ethalis@jlai.lu
    289•14 days ago

    Ars Technica has always been very upfront about it whenever they cover news related to reddit. It’s certainly not ideal, but Ars Technica remains a very good website for tech news

    • FubarberryEnglish
      125•14 days ago

      Ars Technica is generally excellent in my experience, one of the better tech news websites.

            • @sartalon@lemmy.world
              18•14 days ago

              Appreciating Space X accomplishments does not make you an Elon boi.

              Half his gig is space and is he supposed to leave Space X out of his articles?

              He talked about the Longmarch as well. I guess that makes him a terrible Chinese apologist.

              • @9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world
                4•13 days ago

                His tone for Space X failures does not match the tone he uses for <insert company name> failures. He is so quick to forgive Space X when things are absolutely abysmal.

                His tone for Space X accomplishments does not match the tone for <insert company name> accomplishments. He will praise and praise Space X when things go right, wont give the other companies the same attention when they succeed.

                Its a clear bias, and its sad that he has been able to dedicate so much time doing this without people realizing it.

                • @sartalon@lemmy.world
                  3•13 days ago

                  Listen, I hate that fucking South African douchebag as much as the next guy, but Space X has fucking dominated the space race. No one even comes close to them.

                  They turned the industry upside down, and have more launches then the rest of the world combined. In fact it’s not even close.

                  That you can’t separate the success of Space X from Musk, is a you problem.

                  Sure it sucks that he benefits from their success, but also, no one believes that Musk has anything to do with their successes either.

                  The repeated failures of Starship is surprising but if you can’t appreciate what a phenomenal achievement the landing of the super heavy was, then you don’t really understand the industry enough to be commenting on it.

        • I Cast Fist
          3•12 days ago

          TechDirt for stuff that has more to do with the legal side, rather than technical news

          TheRegister for general computer news with a dash of bri’ish sarcasm

      • @NeryK@sh.itjust.works
        3•13 days ago

        Agreed. As long as their corporate overlords do not fuck up Ars, there is no reason to avoid them.

        If (when ?) it becomes an AI slop-filled shell of its former self, then it will be past time to go elsewhere.

    • @KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca
      51•14 days ago

      Yup, as long as the current staff (by and large) are still at the helm of the Ars orbiting HQ, I’ll continue to go there. I’ve lost too many other good tech news sites in the last decade, I can’t lose another one.

      The rest of Conde Nast is hot garbage.

      • B-TR3E
        9•14 days ago

        Ars technica is full of shit, too, as soon they’re even slightly off the tech trail. Even while on the tech trail they’re massively untrustworthy as soon as their owners’ interests are involved. I’ve kicked them out of my RSS reader long ago. If they really got something exciting I’ll get to know via slashdot, mastodon or feddit. Still I’m suspicious as I at least one time caught them intentionally spreading false information.

      • B-TR3E
        7•14 days ago

        Don’t trust ars one inch as soon as they’re getting political. They’re highly manipulative.

    • @brachiosaurus@mander.xyz
      5•13 days ago

      but Ars Technica remains a very good website for tech news

      This thread imply they are not a very good website for tech news.

      • @frezik@midwest.social
        7•13 days ago

        Somehow, they actually are a good source for political news. The tech press (them and Wired) have been some of the best at covering the second Trump Admin. Possibly because it’s crawling in tech bros, and the tech press already knows how to deal with them.

    • lechekaflan
      4•14 days ago

      They have very blunt takes at the space launch industry, for one.

    • @MDCCCLV@lemmy.caEnglish
      4•13 days ago

      Yeah, the conde owner bit isn’t news to anyone, just cause this one guy never looked. Are is fine and it will be as long as the current people are there. Until it gets looted and the staff laid off it is fine. Eric Berger navigates a bit of a tightrope because he has high level access to Musk but can’t be too direct about asking anything other than rockets, even though the political part is affecting the space part a lot right now. I do expect that just like Polygon it will eventually be gutted but nothing lasts forever.

    • ...m...
      1•14 days ago

      …unfortunately they’re rife with oppressively disruptive advertising these days; just not worth reading anymore and my battery life agrees…