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narwhal @lemmy.ml

1 yr. ago • 96%

Funny how Aaron Swartz isn't mentioned in this video about reddit by CNBC.

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Glad I found Lemmy. RIP Aaron

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- He's more likely to rest in peace if his name isn't associated with Reddit.
  
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Aaron has very little to do with reddit. Please stop bringing up his memory as a digg against reddit. We've left the site we can move on.

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- Digg, I see what you did there.
  
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Nobody really mentioned him at all in relation to reddit until about 4-5 years ago

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- That's just objectively false. He was mentioned on reddit frequently prior to his suicide, which was a very big deal at the time.
  
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  Idk man I was on Reddit basically since it 1 or 2 years in and felt like no one really knew about him who wasn’t there in the first 2-4 years or wasn’t around when he died. He was not a well known figure and as important as he was for reddit’s early trajectory, he wasn’t there for long. Less than a year if memory serves. Again he was important, but the windows of time for people to learn of him were small and the site was smaller.
  
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  He was well known, yes, but for other things - he was rarely mentioned in relation to working on or helping to create reddit. The idea that he basically founded reddit seems to be something that people decided 3-4 years ago.
  
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