Listen to Steve Huffman tell the story of how Reddit got started

Re:Listen to Steve Huffman tell the story of how Reddit got ... by pbhjpbhj on Sunday April 23, 2023 @02:31PM (#35679136)

To my recollection Aaron Swartz was anti-establishment; the reddit he was part of was grass-roots, laissez-faire, no holds barred, ... whilst reddit today is part of the media establishment, much more top-down, heavily modded and censored.

Reddit in the post digg-exodus days seemed like a veneer of 'news' covering one of _the_ seedy underbellies of the web. Not only, but to a large extent a hive of scum and villainy; not a chan-site but similarly lacking in societal respectability.

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Re:Listen to Steve Huffman tell the story of how Reddit got ... by benatkin on Sunday April 23, 2023 @04:01PM (#35679925)

He was only there for a few months, so I don't think the reddit community changed much and drove him off that way. It was like it was when it started for several years.

kn0thing and spez seem like they have a lot in common with Elon politically. Aaronsw not so much.

Sorry I can't seem to explain how I perceive their political differences at the moment and instead am just giving an example.

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Re:Listen to Steve Huffman tell the story of how Reddit got ... by theGnuMe on Monday April 24, 2023 @12:59PM (#35690231)

Libertarian?

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Re:Listen to Steve Huffman tell the story of how Reddit got ... by benatkin on Monday April 24, 2023 @01:09PM (#35690366)

Who?

Aaronsw definitely not IMO.

He cofounded this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand_Progress

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Re:Listen to Steve Huffman tell the story of how Reddit got ... by theGnuMe on Monday April 24, 2023 @04:33PM (#35692822)

Elon is the libertarian in this analogy.

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