📢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
    5·
    2 years 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

    • vortic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years 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.

    • teamevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years 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.

    • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years 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.