> 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:
> 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?
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.
> 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.
>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".
Has there been any publication of their reasoning for this?
A founder is a founder and he was influential.
kn0thing and spez are controversial in their own rights and I am first on board to criticise them but I don’t want to jump the gun. It had better be an excellent reason though.
“Founders” are PR for the current management, and are added or removed as suits that purpose.
Of course, the greater public awareness, the more likely that change will itself be negative PR and thus avoided. Also, contracts and legal disputes play role.
Elon Musk was not one of the two people who founded Tesla, but he is one of the five people who can call themselves cofounders after a lawsuit among them and the company.
https://www.redditinc.com/#section-4
Reddit discussion:
https://www.reddit.com/r/WatchRedditDie/comments/j4fsi1/redd...
Company 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.reddi...