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[–] VubDapple 82 points 1 year ago

Rest in Peace Aaron.

[–] stinkypoopsalot 33 points 1 year ago

I think Aaron would have given Steve the finger and walked too.

[–] Yoz 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Everytime i watch the documentary about Aaron, it makes me rrally sad.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] velourium_camper 9 points 1 year ago

The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The Internet's Own Boy. Highly recommend it, someone else posted a comment with a link to watch it:

https://lemmy.world/comment/754950

[–] PRUSSIA_x86 19 points 1 year ago

A true martyr.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago
[–] dice 14 points 1 year ago

it is so sad how harshly the world treated him

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

we need to set an instance/community in his name that documents all the greed aspects of internet companies and the sustainable and user friendly alternatives to fight those: like firefox is to Chrome, invidious, odysee, the fediverse, vpns, alternatives to isps (?) , i2p and p2p, Libgen, Anna's archive ...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Aaron Swartz and Skyrim, both awesome.

[–] lemmy_see 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’ve never played it yet, and I have a Quest 2. Should I give it a go on VR? How long does it take to beat?

[–] bizzle 2 points 1 year ago

It's definitely a classic and worth it to pick up. It's an open world game but the main quest averages in the 20s.

[–] nostalgicgamerz 1 points 1 year ago

VR with mods is an experience that I would recommend anyone living and breathing

[–] felixculpa 12 points 1 year ago

Rest in peace, my dear brother Aaron. You will never be forgotten.

[–] thejangler 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

As a very out of touch dude. Who is this again? I recognize that face and I recall being genuinely sad about his death but that's it

[–] zekiz 23 points 1 year ago

Founder of Reddit and one of the developers of the RSS standard.

Huge Free speach advocate and very against intellectual "property". He wanted knowledge to be free and accessible for everyone and killed himself after he was accused of things that could've brought him to prison for a very long time. He probably did these things which are kinda similar to things Sci-Hub does nowadays.

[–] Thepinyaroma 3 points 1 year ago

You got some good answers already but I just wanted to add...

The DOJ overcharged the hell out of him. Non violent, first time offender looking at decades? They were putting the screws on him in the hopes he'd plea, again to an unreasonable amount of time. Feels unethical to me.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

The internet's own boy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I've fought admins tougher than you

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

The world needs him more than ever today. RIP 😢

[–] the_kung_fu_emu 6 points 1 year ago

He wouldn't have been much younger than I am now, and it pains me that he wasn't around, if not to steer the ship he built in a different direction, then at least have a front row seat to watching it run aground. I do have hopes that he has a good seat in the skybox. I think he would have liked it here, it seems the kind of collaboration he would have enjoyed.

[–] Creyapnilla 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I see him around here in Lemmy with us.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Honestly fuck Steve or Skete or Spez or whatever his fucking name is (I know it’s Steve, just venting), the guys’s a tool. What baffles me is how users of deceased third party apps (RIP Apollo) can continue using the site and supporting it after it’s been publicly made what a liar he is.