ijeff@lemdro.id to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoOne year after being bought for $44 billion, X is worth $19 billionarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square186fedilinkarrow-up11.11Karrow-down151cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up11.05Karrow-down1external-linkOne year after being bought for $44 billion, X is worth $19 billionarstechnica.comijeff@lemdro.id to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square186fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareAgent641@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up39arrow-down1·1 year agoIs it, though? Its a digital message board on some overpriced servers.
minus-squaredQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·1 year agoIs 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?
minus-squarewildgingerlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down3·1 year agoThat argument is unfair anyway, cause what fits on a hard drive gets bigger every year.
minus-squareCleoTheWizard@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoNo it’s completely fair because the value of information deflates as we gain better ability to store it! /s
minus-squareMeowoem@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year agoAnd 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…
minus-squareChrisLicht@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·1 year agoConsidering that almost every public lib continues to use it, there is something to it, even if only the network advantage.
Is it, though?
Its a digital message board on some overpriced servers.
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?
That argument is unfair anyway, cause what fits on a hard drive gets bigger every year.
No it’s completely fair because the value of information deflates as we gain better ability to store it! /s
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…
Considering that almost every public lib continues to use it, there is something to it, even if only the network advantage.
And a lot of consumers on it
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