Celebrating the End of the Usable Internet

CYBER

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Tech News, News & Politics, Technology, News

4 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

It feels like the old internet is breaking apart and no one is sure where to go. The first three pages of search results on Google are dreck. Reddit is shutting down the third party apps that make it usable. AI generated content is flooding beloved old websites.

This might just be the end of the usable internet. On this episode of Cyber, we talk it all out with Motherboard editor-in-chief, Jason Koebler.

Stories discussed in this episode:

Threads: The Motherboard Review

You Can't Look at Porn on Any Reddit Third-Party App Now

AI-Generated Books of Nonsense Are All Over Amazon's Bestseller Lists

The Reddit Protest Is a Battle for the Soul of the Human Internet

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0:00.0	Tadden, it's got the code it's going to launch.
0:10.2	It's a unit system.
0:12.5	I know this.
0:14.6	This is how all the files of the whole park.
0:16.8	It tells you everything.
0:18.5	Sir, he's uploading the virus.
0:21.3	Eagle One. The package is being delivered.
0:25.6	Hello out there on the internet.
0:27.5	I am Matthew Galt, and this is Cyber.
0:30.1	Come with us on a journey today as we celebrate the end of the usable internet with
0:34.7	motherboard editor-in-chief, Jason Kebler.
0:39.3	Jason, thank you so much for coming on to cyber and talking about Reddit and the general apocalypse of the internet that is currently
0:44.7	going on. How are you doing today? I love to use the internet. Love to use it. Love to talk about it.
0:50.9	Love to be on the show. I've got a little bit of an echo on you that I think is going to come through in the recording.
1:00.3	Just throwing that note out there to our tech guys.
1:04.4	I'll record on my end, but I don't know why that's happening.
1:09.4	So, big story in social media this week was the launch of threads.
1:16.8	Are you on threads yet, Jason?
1:19.0	Yeah, I'm on threads.
1:20.8	I got on threads like within moments of it launching, like immediately after it came out.
1:25.7	Do you like it?
1:26.4	Emily, actually, and I was like, you got to help me get on threads.
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