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The founders list: https://www.redditinc.com/#section-4 https://www.redditinc.com/#section-4 Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/WatchRedditDie/comme

by jolmg 6y ago

The founders list: https://www.redditinc.com/#section-4 https://www.redditinc.com/#section-4 Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/WatchRedditDie/comments/j4fsi1/reddit_rewrites_history_by_excluding_aaron_swartz/ https://www.reddit.com/r/WatchRedditDie/comments/j4fsi1/redd... Company history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit#History From there, I suppose this is the rationale: > The idea and initial development of Reddit originated with then college roommates Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian in 2005. > Between November 2005 and January 2006, Reddit merged with Aaron Swartz's company Infogami, and Swartz became an equal owner of the resulting parent company, Not A Bug. Ohanian later wrote that instead of labeling Swartz as a co-founder, the correct description is that Swartz's company was acquired by Reddit 6 months after he and Huffman had started. EDIT: This doesn't seem to be news though. Checking the Wayback Machine, Aaron Swartz seems to never have been mentioned as a founder on that page. Here's what the page looked like in April 2018: https://web.archive.org/web/20180409192133/https://www.redditinc.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20180409192133/https://www.reddi...

kilo_bravo_3 6y ago
I would click on the watchredditdie link but I'm not a white supremacist. Is this just another muckraking gotcha criticism of a perceived foe by bigots? Edit: never mind I checked out the YouTube channel of the video's owner and it 100% is a muckraking gotcha criticism of a perceived foe by a bigot.
- echelon 6y ago
  > I would click on the watchredditdie link but I'm not a white supremacist I had no idea what WatchRedditDie was, but after seeing a number of posts in their subreddit, I'm highly inclined to agree. Several threads are complaining about BLM. It's incredibly distasteful. I disagree with the direction the Reddit platform is heading (my non-animated avatar is the Digg logo), but this community is not one I'd like to use to voice my displeasure. Edit: would the downvoters like to explain themselves?
  - kilo_bravo_3 6y ago
    If reddit nukes a thread because it has been invaded by the type of person who has problems with open source community codes of conduct that require you to treat trans people with respect, that is a sign of it dying-- apparently. Watch reddit die is just people complaining about "freeze speech" because they aren't allowed to tell homosexuals, feminists, and anti-bigots to kill themselves.
    - echelon 6y ago
      > Watch reddit die is just people complaining about "freeze speech" because they aren't allowed to tell homosexuals, feminists, and anti-bigots to kill themselves. Gross. Hate speech is free speech, but it isn't fair speech. Especially when shrouded in anonymity. These people already have 4chan and Facebook. They should go there instead.
  - kilo_bravo_3 6y ago
    >Edit: would the downvoters like to explain themselves? They will never explain themselves. You are a "degenerate enemy" for thinking that calling for BLM marchers to be run over in the streets is "in poor taste". As a degenerate enemy you are subhuman.
    - dang 6y ago
      We've banned this account for repeatedly using HN for flamewar. That's not what this site is for: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.
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by jolmg 6y ago

kilo_bravo_3 6y ago

I would click on the watchredditdie link but I'm not a white supremacist. Is this just another muckraking gotcha criticism of a perceived foe by bigots? Edit: never mind I checked out the YouTube channel of the video's owner and it 100% is a muckraking gotcha criticism of a perceived foe by a bigot.

echelon 6y ago
> I would click on the watchredditdie link but I'm not a white supremacist I had no idea what WatchRedditDie was, but after seeing a number of posts in their subreddit, I'm highly inclined to agree. Several threads are complaining about BLM. It's incredibly distasteful. I disagree with the direction the Reddit platform is heading (my non-animated avatar is the Digg logo), but this community is not one I'd like to use to voice my displeasure. Edit: would the downvoters like to explain themselves?
- kilo_bravo_3 6y ago
  If reddit nukes a thread because it has been invaded by the type of person who has problems with open source community codes of conduct that require you to treat trans people with respect, that is a sign of it dying-- apparently. Watch reddit die is just people complaining about "freeze speech" because they aren't allowed to tell homosexuals, feminists, and anti-bigots to kill themselves.
  - echelon 6y ago
    > Watch reddit die is just people complaining about "freeze speech" because they aren't allowed to tell homosexuals, feminists, and anti-bigots to kill themselves. Gross. Hate speech is free speech, but it isn't fair speech. Especially when shrouded in anonymity. These people already have 4chan and Facebook. They should go there instead.
- kilo_bravo_3 6y ago
  >Edit: would the downvoters like to explain themselves? They will never explain themselves. You are a "degenerate enemy" for thinking that calling for BLM marchers to be run over in the streets is "in poor taste". As a degenerate enemy you are subhuman.
  - dang 6y ago
    We've banned this account for repeatedly using HN for flamewar. That's not what this site is for: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.
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