this post was submitted on 15 Mar 2026
9 points (100.0% liked)

Mass Media

55 readers
76 users here now

Channels, platforms, and technologies designed to disseminate information, entertainment, and messages to a large, diverse, and geographically dispersed audience simultaneously.

founded 2 weeks ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

I know a few of these.
Eventually the articles became less interesting and I unsubscribed to the sites.

If Tom's Guide is related to Tom's Hardware, I tend to visit that pretty often even now.

For others, it's mostly just when I get links to them from Lemmy posts.

[โ€“] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Toms is awful. It has been ever since Tom left ages ago. I wrote for HardOCP, and we made fun of them all the time, or got legitimately mad when they'd publish straight up misinformation or repost our reporting without credit.

Jokes on HardOCP, I guess. Tom's Hardware still alive because they write clickbait or repost others' news, mostly

Depending on what you're interested in specifically, instead of Tom's, I'd read Gamer's Nexus (specifically their text articles), Eurogamer and their Digital Foundry division, and Notebookcheck. Maybe Videocardz and Techpower up for more "rumor" type articles.

There are other niches, like semi magazines or IEEE Spectrum, NewAtlas, IgorsLab for cooling and fan testing, stuff like that.