took a deep dive into how CEO Steve Huffman went from being Reddit’s co-founder to its much-needed savior at a difficult moment—and how he then became the villain at the center of Reddit’s still-raging protests: https://slate.com/technology/2023/06/reddit-protests-steve-huffman-api-chaos.html
I still check Reddit for updates on how the protests and the mods over there are doing, but other than that I’m quite comfortable with Kbin, Lemmy and Discord for discussions.