48 points

Glad I found Lemmy. RIP Aaron

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He’s more likely to rest in peace if his name isn’t associated with Reddit.

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10 points

Aaron has very little to do with reddit. Please stop bringing up his memory as a digg against reddit. We’ve left the site we can move on.

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5 points

Digg, I see what you did there.

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-25 points

Nobody really mentioned him at all in relation to reddit until about 4-5 years ago

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49 points

That’s just objectively false. He was mentioned on reddit frequently prior to his suicide, which was a very big deal at the time.

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Idk man I was on Reddit basically since it 1 or 2 years in and felt like no one really knew about him who wasn’t there in the first 2-4 years or wasn’t around when he died. He was not a well known figure and as important as he was for reddit’s early trajectory, he wasn’t there for long. Less than a year if memory serves. Again he was important, but the windows of time for people to learn of him were small and the site was smaller.

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He was well known, yes, but for other things - he was rarely mentioned in relation to working on or helping to create reddit. The idea that he basically founded reddit seems to be something that people decided 3-4 years ago.

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3 points

He’s become a zombie mascot for dissing reddit.

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-20 points

He rewrote the backend of Reddit, how is that not a big part?

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