@nprofile1q... Perhaps contrarian, but IME, IRC was on its way out before the Freenode debacle. Circa 2013 I was in college trying to convince student orgs to use IRC, but Slack took over instead.
@nprofile1q...@nprofile1q... There is a question of how much people *should* pay for data/information, which also gets into theories of value which I am not well enough versed in to discuss.
All I'll say is Microsoft became one of the wealthiest companies in the history of the world because they realized they could write an OS one time and sell that data to a billion people at $150 each.
@nprofile1q... As somebody who lives in Columbus, a town with zero rail today, it's really depressing to see a line running through.
We also once had non-electric trains running through a cool station downtown, but the last train ran in the 1970s and they tore the station down. There's a replica in its place now that houses restaurants.