It'd be nice if they'd stop trying erase Aaron's work on Reddit but that's been underway for some time, and I'm not even really sure why. I can't fathom an end-goal where marginalizing Aaron's contributions is a benefit to them.
He wasn't really like Facebook's other founders either. (Unlike Elon and Tesla, Zuckerberg is unquestionably a founder of Facebook.) Zuckerberg gave them too little credit, but at least one of them demanded too much credit IMO. That doesn't make it right for Zuckerberg to give them too little credit.
But my point is that _even if_ Aaron was super, super important to the company 16 years ago (which I can't speak to), Reddit was a tiny little fledgling of what it is now. From what little I know about Reddit's history, I know that Aaron stopped working on Reddit very soon after he started and has had no contribution to the company since then.
I also do think it's interesting that the people that have worked at Reddit for years/decades all seem to have a similar opinion of the situation, and the people who haven't worked at Reddit at all are the ones that feel so strongly that Aaron is being wronged somehow.
Maybe Aaron himself was more proud of all the other things he accomplished! Saying he was an important but small part of Reddit's story is still something!
I'll pass on listening to the podcast, there are thousands of others I'd rather listen to. Thanks anyways.
Edit: I had to retract what I said here because a lot of things the reddit founders said from 2006-2009 seem to be missing and I couldn't find anything to back it up https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20339
> If people have to listen to a podcast to hear...
birken wasn't saying that this information is only in a podcast, he's talking about a podcast because that's the article we're discussing.
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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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.
Aaronsw definitely not IMO.
He cofounded this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand_Progress