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https://web.archive.org/web/20180731111417/https://www.reddi... I don't think he was ever on that page
He was, however, listed as the 3rd co-founder on Reddit’s CrunchBase page as of 2014: https://web.archive.org/web/20140815155953/http://www.crunch...
I thought it really was founded by those two, and written in Lisp at that. Then YC hooked them up with Swartz and his big thing was rewriting in python. (And maybe there was some contention about this? I forget, but I seem to recall some drama at the time about his contributions.) It was a long time ago, though, so I might be misremembering. In any case, I'm fairly certain Swartz did join after the fact, but I'm not…
I found an Observer article[1] from 2011 that gives some more insight. It looks to me that Aaron could indeed be considered a Reddit co-founder. However, Huffman and Ohanian may have felt threatened by being associated to the criminal later on, so they went with a new narrative. [1]: https://observer.com/2011/07/rumors-acquisitions-did-reddit-...
I don’t know anyone involved, but that’s the impression I got after seeing this topic beat to death on HN and reddit over the last 10ish years.
I doubt they cared at all that he was charged years after he left.