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I mean, sure? Aaron Swartz didn’t really do much with Reddit at all. The infatuation with him in terms of Reddit is kinda weird.
He rewrote it from Lisp into Python, but that’s about it. He joined after the site was already live and was only there for about a year.
He fought for information to be free by pirating JSTOR papers, and he was persecuted and prosecuted for it, and he killed himself (or did he? [vsauce music]).
... And now we have SciHub. Which is the same exact fucking thing as what he was trying to accomplish.
Also he was instrumental to the invention of the RSS protocol:
The same RSS protocol that spez completely killed off a few months ago. Aaron's grave has been shat on so many times that it's basically a latrine now. But the people who say "fuck spez" know none of this, and if they do, they're cowards for not saying it out loud.
Yes his other work was far more instrumental. That’s also irrelevant to Reddit.
Read my edit. Spez killed off RSS a few months ago. The only irrelevance here is that of your opinions.
Aaaand right there you lost the argument.
No, it still has a couple of weeks. It will end on the 13th.
Which, again who cares what Reddit does? It only affects Reddit.
I've never seen two people both lose the argument at the same time.
Reddit was initially written in Lisp?! His main contribution to Reddit was actually a bad one then :(
Yeah it was written in Common Lisp. Spez wrote all the original code.
When they merged with Infogami, Swartz became coowner and rewrote it using his web.py that he developed.
That was the total extent he had with Reddit.