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I wish there were more articles about tech not tech biz (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Just seems like everything is "this company did this to their employees" and less about "this novel messaging protocol offers these measured pros and cons." Or similar

And yes, I could post things, but I'm referring to what hits the top, 12h.

Can anyone rec communities with less of a biz and politics and wfh vs in-office vibe?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I liked them until they started posting clickbait.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Some of their headlines can be shitty, but I find that most of their articles are great once you dive into them. Except for their Wired cross publication stories, those mostly suck.

Eric Berger’s space articles are fantastic. Well minus a recent article of his where he hand waved away Elon being a shitheel. On a technical level they’re great.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Ars' quality dropped badly about 10 years ago, around the same time New Scientist went to shit. A lot of their articles are now uncritical regurgitations of press releases. Even the one guy they had doing really detailed investigative pieces on the videogame industry up and left probably 5 years ago.

Also they never followed through on their promise to give us an everything-but-apple RSS feed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

They just aren’t good anymore. And haven’t been for a while. The science/space articles are nice to read on the technical side but they fall short on anything traditionally tech related.

A number of posts are sensationalized to the point of almost being incorrect. For example, their Okta post about the breach update affecting everyone was portrayed as if it were a third, completely unrelated breach. While Okta’s security practices were shown to be terrible this year, writing misleading articles makes it hard to follow news.

They’ve leaned hard into the “Twitter news gets us clicks” problem, they’ve leaned hard into that for clicks.

For years they’ve made it a point to have some kind of Tesla-bashing (or least Tesla related) article every few days — even 5 years ago Tim Lee basically said it was to drive traffic to the site.

With that said, obviously traffic plays a role. We're a primarily ad-supported business and so we write more about topics that will generate more clicks. Articles about Tesla generate high click-through rates on our home page. Google News, our primary source of external traffic, also sends us a lot of traffic any time we write about Tesla. So do I write about Tesla for clicks? Guilty as charged.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Eric Berger is a SpaceX fanboy. He is knowledgeable about rockets though.