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I'm your host, Elise Hugh. The internet was made by humans for humans, right? We've never had more tools to connect with each other online than we do today.

And yet, people have never felt more alone.

And the internet, it seems like it's never felt more inhuman.

The purpose of the internet was to connect people. And the internet has indeed connected billions

of people. But being connected and the feeling of connection are two different things.

That's co-founder and CEO of Reddit Steve Huffman, sharing a contradiction he's been grappling

with. Steve started Reddit at 21 with no plan for the future of the internet or even for

himself. 20 years later, he thinks it's time we had one.

In this talk, he makes the case that social media and the internet are not the same thing

and that the model most of us have been living inside might be the problem.

The more automated and summarized and sanitized and manicured that the rest of the internet becomes, the more we need

places for people to be people, for people to be humans. Stick around after the talk. We caught up

with TED Tech curator Bilavl Sidu, who's shared a few thoughts and takeaways on Steve's work

for us to consider. That's all coming up right after a short break.

And now our TED Talk of the Day. So I'm Steve Huffman, and today I want to start with a question.

Are humans going extinct on the Internet?

I'll cut to the chase. My answer is no.

But the Internet is becoming more automated and more optimized for attention.

And people feel more alone.

And the purpose of the internet was to connect people. And the internet has indeed connected billions of people. But being connected

and the feeling of connection are two different things. And so if we want to maintain our humanity on the internet,

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