Per the Internet Archive, it doesn't look like Reddit has ever acknowledged Aaron as a founder on this page (which seems to date to 2018), so this isn't a recent change.
> ^ Swartz has been identified as a cofounder of Reddit, but the title is a source of controversy. With the merger of Infogami and Reddit, Swartz became a co-owner and director of parent company Not A Bug, Inc., along with Reddit cofounders Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian.[262] Swartz has been referred to as "cofounder" in the press and by investor Paul Graham (who recommended the merger); Ohanian describes him as "co-owner".[34][263]
I don't think anyone's position on this question has changed visibly since Aaron's death in 2013.
It’s no big deal. Aaron himself said he didn’t mind if he wasn’t considered a co-founder. Starting the company and contributing to the core framework are separate things. Elon Musk wouldn’t care, he has way bigger things to think about :)
Dr. Edmund Weitz contributed the core web framework they used before that, but most certainly was not a cofounder. Ben Bangert and James Gardner contributed the one they used after.
I never had the impression Aaron was very interested in working on reddit. It seems to me the merger was effectively a bailout for Infogami, which had not attracted either further investment or a revenue stream. I believe some of its code may have found its way into reddit's wiki feature, but that's not likely more valuable than a weekend or two of coding. I was an early user of both reddit and Infogami and the software just wasn't that sophisticated.
I've been trying to get off reddit for years and I think I'm finally there.
Reddit has always had a grouo-think mentality, but now it's backed by reddit itself to push particular agendas. Meanwhile harmless communities get banned simply because reddit doesn't like them. Meanwhile there are other subreddits that get a pass for the same content on the opposite side of the political spectrum. The worst part is, hardly any alternatives have a community as large as it and is just as good.
Voat or ruqqus? Not unless you wanna listen to how the jews control the media. Mastodon? It's a weird real time twitter hybrid that is like the tower of babel of social media. Facebook is extraordinarily lame now. All people do is post memes they see online elsewhere. 4chan? It is not user friendly at all.
I just want a place like old reddit again. Back when articles linked were legitimately decent, it wasn't just memes, and "kicks" or "bans" were just a cadre of people that disagreed via downvote.
I personally blame the normies. Part of the great thing about the internet is the fact that you can say things you wouldn't feel comfortable in real life. Not just mean things but personal beliefs of political ones. Now these people who foster a community of thin skinned people who are agast people genuinely awful as though that was never a fact to begin with.
Probably for the best, considering how Steve Huffman and company have turned what Aaron Swartz envisioned as an open platform resistant to censorship into a publisher that will not hesitate to delete entire communities because they don't like their politics.
