Manjaro i3 as my personal machine.

Mac OS on M1 MBP as my primary work machine.

Win 11 on the company-provided laptop, primarily for when I need Windows-only software (Visual Studio, etc.) or run labs in Hyper-V.

I started looking into Reddit around 2007 and made the transition from Digg shortly after.

History repeats itself, it seems.

These are both sad and exciting times!

My very first comment on Lemmy :)

I am looking for a social network that has the interest of its community as a top priority.

Reddit (similarly to Stack Exchange, these days) prioritizes its business goals against the best interests of the users and the volunteers that provide, moderate, consume and discuss the content.

These companies are nothing without the community, while the community can live without these companies.

A business that operates the platform that supports a community is entitled to profiting from it, but it cannot happen at the expense of the commuinity itself.

The recent changes to Reddit’s API policies are worrying on their own, and have significant impact on users, moderators and the creators of the third-party services/apps that have made Reddit much more enjoyable. But I feel these changes have much more profound implications about the balance of power between the platform provider and the community, as if the former pretends to own and control the content and how the community is allowed to consume it, which is not even remotely acceptable.

I hope Lemmy is the place I am looking for.