this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2025
649 points (95.5% liked)

You Should Know

38899 readers
227 users here now

YSK - for all the things that can make your life easier!

The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:

Rules (interactive)


Rule 1- All posts must begin with YSK.

All posts must begin with YSK. If you're a Mastodon user, then include YSK after @youshouldknow. This is a community to share tips and tricks that will help you improve your life.



Rule 2- Your post body text must include the reason "Why" YSK:

**In your post's text body, you must include the reason "Why" YSK: It’s helpful for readability, and informs readers about the importance of the content. **



Rule 3- Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here.

Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here. Breaking this rule will not get you or your post removed, but it will put you at risk, and possibly in danger.



Rule 4- No self promotion or upvote-farming of any kind.

That's it.



Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.

Posts and comments which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.



Rule 6- Regarding non-YSK posts.

Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-YSK posts using the [META] tag on your post title.



Rule 7- You can't harass or disturb other members.

If you harass or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.

If you are a member, sympathizer or a resemblant of a movement that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of a group of people and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you will be banned on sight.

For further explanation, clarification and feedback about this rule, you may follow this link.



Rule 8- All comments should try to stay relevant to their parent content.



Rule 9- Reposts from other platforms are not allowed.

Let everyone have their own content.



Rule 10- The majority of bots aren't allowed to participate here.

Unless included in our Whitelist for Bots, your bot will not be allowed to participate in this community. To have your bot whitelisted, please contact the moderators for a short review.



Rule 11- Posts must actually be true: Disiniformation, trolling, and being misleading will not be tolerated. Repeated or egregious attempts will earn you a ban. This also applies to filing reports: If you continually file false reports YOU WILL BE BANNED! We can see who reports what, and shenanigans will not be tolerated.

If you file a report, include what specific rule is being violated and how.



Partnered Communities:

You can view our partnered communities list by following this link. To partner with our community and be included, you are free to message the moderators or comment on a pinned post.

Community Moderation

For inquiry on becoming a moderator of this community, you may comment on the pinned post of the time, or simply shoot a message to the current moderators.

Credits

Our icon(masterpiece) was made by @clen15!

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

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.

(page 2) 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Good luck finding media now owned by some evil corporation or state.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] Prontomomo@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Wow, I don’t wanna be on Reddit, but I don’t hate it like this, is this how other people feel?

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world -3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Why tho? What do you have against employees whose company is owned by another company whose parent company owns some other company whose executives did something you didn't like? Your imaginary social justice mechanics really doesn't make any fucking sense.

[–] Ethalis@jlai.lu 282 points 1 week ago (7 children)

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

[–] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 3 points 6 days ago (3 children)

but Ars Technica remains a very good website for tech news

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

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 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.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 122 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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

[–] NeryK@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 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.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Long live Beth Mole for health news!

[–] Mossheart@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

And punny titles!

load more comments (8 replies)
load more comments (2 replies)
[–] KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca 50 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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.

load more comments (4 replies)
[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's great on politics too, they post things other outlets won't.

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
[–] Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 51 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This had pretty wide awareness during the reddit api Crack down and even before that when Chinese tencent bought a stake in reddit. A lot of the reddit users from that time are aware. I would argue tencent is much much worse than Conde nast

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Interesting fact: when lowtax was forced to sell somethingawful to one of his moderators that got bitcoin rich for 400k he revealed during the negotiations that conde nast attempted to buy somethingawful for 13 million dollars around 2006 or so. He turned them down because he “was still having fun with the site”

After the sale was completed the mod looked into it a bit more and realized in that same timeframe conde nast ended up purchasing a majority stake in reddit for a very similar amount

Imagine how different the internet would be if “the front page of the internet” was a hacked up vbulletin site from 2003 filled with 40 year old IT dorks and run by a guy that was so afraid of paying child support that he literally killed himself

[–] ZephyrXero@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

Conde Nast didn't make Reddit the front page of the Internet, the community did

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] grue@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

When I hear "Conde Nast" I think about that scandal with the Bon Appetit Youtube channel and how they were discriminating against their non-white chefs.

https://www.thewrap.com/bon-appetit-adam-rapoport-brownface/

[–] MemmingenFan923@feddit.org 20 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Test your theory by posting this on Reddit. Let's see how long your post stays until it gets removed.

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The list of who not to avoid I think is much shorter.

load more comments (4 replies)
load more comments
view more: ‹ prev next ›