WTF???
Why are we talking about reddit here at all?
I cant give you flack for asking, because unlike others, you asked in a nice way
I am supporting this new format , still learning, and did not realize it was reddit.
Because this specific Lemmy community is “reddit”
If you don’t want to hear about it, I suggest you block the reddit Lemmy community.
That’s a painfully sad deletion. Aaron fought the good fight. It makes me sad how he came to an end.
@Sine_Fine_Belli WTF???
Steve Farthufferman
Aaron was reddit, and since his passing its shit now.
RIP Mr Swartz, you are sorely missed.
I need a history lesson. Who is Aaron, what’s his deal?
Watch the documentary The Internet’s Own Boy. It’s very much worth the watch.
Honored to teach you about Aaron Swartz,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
He was the best of us and the jack boots murdered him. Free flow of ideas and knowledge, we cant have that. And reddit went to shit after… Again he was a poet warrior, I wish he was still here.
One of the cofounders of Reddit. Killed himself. Here’s his wiki. Aaron Swartz
What an appropriate homage - linking to one of markdown’s originator’s Wikipedia page using markdown.
“In 2002 Aaron Swartz created atx and referred to it as “the true structured text format”. Gruber created the Markdown language in 2004, with Swartz acting as beta tester … Markdown: Swartz was a major contributor to John Gruber’s Markdown,[249][250] a lightweight markup language for generating HTML, and author of its html2text translator. The syntax for Markdown was influenced by Swartz’s earlier atx language (2002)” from wikipedia
Oh wow holy shit that link thing worked
Brackets for the words you want. Immediately followed by parentheses. I’m sure this confuses some British folk but that’s a problem for another day
From a technical standpoint it irritates me that it’s not the URL in brackets and the words in parenthesis. But I also got used to it over 10 years ago so it is what it is.
Fuck spez… But where is Alexis on all of this? Does he comment, or just cashes the checks now?
No comment 🤷♂️ https://twitter.com/alexisohanian/status/1667312600554643459
Back when “reddit.com” was a subreddit. I remember the thread (you can still visit it today) regarding his early departure. And how Aaron and spez didn’t really want to disclose the “real reason”. But, it saddens me how the public viewed his contributions as complete
nilin result of no full disclosure (Aaron did simply state corporate life (post acq.) was not for him, but everyone says that).Especially during times like this when the same batch of Aaron’s year (Altman, Huffman, etc) are pushing closed source thoughts. We need Open Access civics, like Aaron again.
Guys like Aaron will always be forced out by guys like Steve because guys like Aaron don’t want to be assholes, which is a necessity guys like Steve have no issue with.
It’s not a surprise that the c-suite has the highest number of psychopaths.
It’s old news, they removed him from the founders list two years ago.
At the End of the day: The greedy man’s gonna have nothing, literally nothing. For Aaron his legacy will continue.
We can hope, but if Facebook adn Microsoft taught us anything, is that the greedy man will keep fuckloads of cash
Fuck loads of cash but nothing to show for it.
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They’ll get theirs eventually, imho. Maybe not this go around, but it’ll happen. Always does.
Maybe.
Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis
Nobody cares about u/spez !
have college friends too. idiots
Lol what?
After reading the comments, Reddit admin stuff always sounded like it was a shitshow of unplesant, troubled and outright evil people
Precisely why I left
Fuck spez.
