• @Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    251 year ago

    Steve Huffman is pissing all over Aaron Schwartz’s grave, and completely abandoning the ideals that was once a foundation of Reddit. Reddit was originally open source, Aaron died in 2013, and by 2017, Reddit had abandoned the open source / community philosophy entirely.

    Never forget Aaron Schwartz.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

    • @grue@lemmy.world
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      41 year ago

      I have to believe Aaron would be leading the charge to Lemmy if he were still alive today.

    • vortic
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      21 year ago

      This is the main reason I haven’t been back to reddit since this shit began. All of this goes against the original ethos of Reddit that made me join and is a disrespect to all of the people who made reddit what it is. It disrespects the users, the volunteer moderators, the app developers, and the old employees. Most especially, though, it disrespects Aaron and, if I’m not mistaken, Alexis.

    • Cosmic Cleric
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      11 year ago

      As a computer nerd I never knew about a lot of what this wiki article described, and I’m something of a news junkie to boot. It was a great read.

      From the wiki article…

      Swartz wrote in his Guerilla Open Access Manifesto:[47]

      The world’s entire scientific … heritage … is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations…

      And interesting quote, in light of the current situation going on at Reddit right now.

    • assa123
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      11 year ago

      His name was Aaron Swartz, his name was Aaron Swartz.

    • @teamevil@lemmy.world
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      11 year ago

      I remember when Ellen Pao was the nightmare and spez wasn’t yet perceived as the fuck he actually is. Different times, I guess the devil you know is better sometimes. Otherwise you get spez, fuck spez.

      • @Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever@lemmy.world
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        41 year ago

        Based on interviews since (so obvious grain of salt) as well as her background (keyword “her”), Pao was likely set up to clean up the image a bit and then get thrown under the bus for such negative actions as… banning revenge porn and blatant hate subs. She gets a nice payday and Reddit gets a bogeyman.

        Its pretty standard for start up cultures and “tech” companies. Bring in an outsider to do the unpopular stuff and then have the founder/golden boy come back to “right the ship”.

      • @Buffalox@lemmy.world
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        01 year ago

        What she did was OK IMO. Banning revenge porn is absolutely necessary. Probably a legal requirement in almost all countries. The rage against Pau seemed to be from extremists who wanted reddit to allow discrimination, bigotry, racism, and everything in that vein.

        The resulting uncensored Voat fork of reddit, was a completely useless cesspool.

        I’ve seen a Lemmy server (feddit.dk) require posts and comments to be legal (probably for the country of the server). Which in my opinion is obvious. It should be a minimum conduct requirement for a social network anyway.

    • @Willer@lemmy.world
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      11 year ago

      Remember whatsapp annual 1€ payment? My fucking god what happened? Anyone defending this price is fucking insane.