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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.