this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2023
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[–] VubDapple@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago

Rest in Peace Aaron.

[–] stinkypoopsalot@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

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

[–] PRUSSIA_x86@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

A true martyr.

[–] Yoz@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] animist@lemmy.one 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] zen404@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years 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

[–] velourium_camper@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] trippingonthewire@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

Aaron Swartz and Skyrim, both awesome.

[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] mr_washee_washee@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 ...

[–] thejangler@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (4 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@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years 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.

[–] felixculpa@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] abogical@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago

The world needs him more than ever today. RIP 😢

[–] OctopusKurwa@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

I've fought admins tougher than you

[–] badnew@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years 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.

[–] Creyapnilla@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago