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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Is it, though?

Its a digital message board on some overpriced servers.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is this the wikipedia-argument back at him? The whole twitter post history could fit on a single hard drive, so why are people paying for it?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That argument is unfair anyway, cause what fits on a hard drive gets bigger every year.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

No it’s completely fair because the value of information deflates as we gain better ability to store it! /s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

And there's endless examples of a small well ordered thing being far more expensive than essentially the same thing less ordered in bigger volume - a room full of carbon dioxide, a bag of coal, a diamond...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Considering that almost every public lib continues to use it, there is something to it, even if only the network advantage.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

And a lot of consumers on it