That goes for most sub culture. A new thing pops up, comics, tabletops, internet thing. It slowly gets popular. At it’s zenith some wise guy realize he can make a quick buck out of it, wrestles control over it. more people show up less informed but still keen to try it out. Leaves the old guards behind.
Of the three people involved in Reddit’s creation, he was the most useless and antithetical to reddit’s greater vision.
Swartz was a far better person.
Those are always the guys that wrest control though. They have no contributions, so instead they spend their time scheming.
That goes for most sub culture. A new thing pops up, comics, tabletops, internet thing. It slowly gets popular. At it’s zenith some wise guy realize he can make a quick buck out of it, wrestles control over it. more people show up less informed but still keen to try it out. Leaves the old guards behind.
Aaron Swartz, the internet’s own boy.