📢Entire mod team on r/mildlyinteresting (and more subs) removed and locked out of their accounts after changing their rules upon community's request. (They're also switching subs BACK to SFW) - RedditMigration to the "Threadiverse" - kbin.social
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[PART 1](https://imgur.com/t68isEo)...
  • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    1 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

    • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 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.

    • teamevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 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.

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

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