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FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to Reddit@lemmy.world · 2 days ago

Aaron is no longer considered as cofounder by reddit. He fought for free speech.

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Aaron is no longer considered as cofounder by reddit. He fought for free speech.

FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to Reddit@lemmy.world · 2 days ago
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2377145

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  • green_goglin
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    fuck u/spez

  • osanna@lemmy.vg
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    Although Aaron was instrumental in reddit’s success, he wasn’t a founder. He became part of reddit after reddit merged with infogami after a year or so of reddit being founded. therefore not a founder.

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      sounds like a founder in all but name, so what if he came a year later, the intent to leave him out is clear considering they were willing to before.

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      It’s a definition thing.

      You are correct Aaron wasn’t instrumental in creating reddit (Which most would agree is a prerequisite to being considered a founder I presume.), his company got grafted to it and he was given a founder title.

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        So the comment above you is wrong

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          Again, depends on how you define founder. In the real sense, he’s not. In the legal sense, he is. Per Aaron’s reddit account-

          https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/1octb/reddit_cofounder_aaron_swartz_discusses_how_he/c1oewi/

          One of the points of the merger was that we would all call ourselves co-founders, so that’s what I’ve been doing. I’d be happy to stop if that’s what Steve and Alexis wanted, though.

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      That’s not how that works. Famously McDonald’s and Tesla for example.

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        Musk isn’t a founder of Tesla

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          https://web.archive.org/web/20201115134134/https://www.cnet.com/news/tesla-motors-founders-now-there-are-five/

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            Lol the definition of words don’t change just because a court said Musk is allowed to call himself that (after being sued by one of the actual founders). Not exactly a good look.

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    Steve Huffman… Isn’t he that greedy little pig boy?

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      awww come on. pigs are smart intelligent beings. Quite the opposite of spez.

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    Well, see, Aaron Swartz isn’t a billionaire, so he doesn’t matter.

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      He’s also been dead for over a decade, sadly.

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        If we make a comparison between Aron’s situation vs Anna’s archive-Nvidia deal, we can conclude if you are not a millionare the justice is applied different.

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          There are two justice systems. Always has been. One for the elites and one for the rest of us.

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    For those not in the know:

    Swartz’s involvement in Reddit is debated. He is considered the co-founder of Reddit by Y Combinator owner Paul Graham as a result of the merger of Swartz’s project Infogami and Reddit. With the merger of Infogami and Reddit, Swartz became a co-owner and director of parent company Not A Bug, Inc., along with Reddit cofounders Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian. Ohanian considers Swartz a co-owner of Reddit.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz#cite_note-7

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      Aaron was instrumental in rewriting Reddit from spez’s half-baked lisp prototype to python. And that was before python hit it big. Kn0thing can’t code and neither could spez. Without Aaron, reddit would never have scaled.

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      Sounds like a similar situation to Elon and Tesla, no?

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        Arguably Elon and PayPal, since that was a merger, but not Tesla, which he bought his way into ex post facto.

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        what a coincidence, Huffman love kissing musk’s ass from time to time.

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    huffman cant stop smelling MUSKs faerts, ohanian sold out for something else.

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      smelling

      “huffing” was right there, man

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    Fuck /u/spez

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    Fuck Spez

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    lol at the redacted usernames, like it’s a secret or something

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      Our they’re in the Epstein files.

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    Aaron was by far the best of them all. That documentary moved me to tears…

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    rest in force Aaron

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    Reddit is a pro-American forum with hard censorship and extremist moderators. They cover that up with funny memes to look like fun. Until you think you can post something yourself.

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    Fuck reddit

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    Could you post the URL this is from and not just a screenshot?

  • DylanMc6 [any, any]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Justice for Aaron Swartz

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