I guess this is the 'meat' of the article. Interesting that they regard reddit as a 'niche' quirky corner of the internet. To me they are well over the peak of their enshittification journey with mainly bots and overzealous mods and pay-to-play accounts. Just like digg and others before something else will take their place soon enough as the place where enthusiasts share valuable content before businesses poke their nose in and we repeat the cycle again.

> What's most interesting is what content companies are getting the best deals. It's not the ragebait headline writers. It's not the news organizations writing yet another take on what's going on in politics. It's not the spammy content farms full of drivel. Instead, it's Reddit and other quirky corners that best remind us of the Internet of old. For those of you old enough, think back to the Internet not of the last 15 years but of the last 35. We’ve lost some of what made that early Internet great, but there are indications that we might finally have the incentives to bring more of it back.

> It seems increasingly likely that in our future, AI-driven Internet — assuming the AI companies are willing to step up, support the ecosystem, and pay for the content that is the most valuable to them — it’s the creative, local, unique, original content that’ll be worth the most. And, if you’re like us, the thing you as an Internet consumer are craving more of is creative, local, unique, original content. And, it turns out, having talked with many of them, that’s the content that content creators are most excited to create.

I wonder if that’s a purposeful framing to avoid saying that content a large and diverse group of humans has created is very valuable. Think about how much money the Facebook data set would be worth to OpenAI. But cloudflare likely wants to avoid the privacy nightmare taking attention away from what they’re doing.