nptacek: AI will only accelerate the decay of freely shared internet culture
nptacek · x · 2026-09-23
Quoting a post urging people to hoard memes, screenshots, and local backups because 'culture disappears from the internet,' Cloudflare CTO Scott nptacek adds that the decay will only accelerate with AI in the mix: people are moving to take down once-freely distributed knowledge, and the internet is fracturing further into siloed, insular communities.
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