“I fondly remember respectful arguments with Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett on CIX”

As he prepares to say goodbye to Twitter – and more generally – Paul pulls out the key differences between Elon Musk’s latest plaything and Mastodon

PAUL OCKENDEN

As I approach my retirement – more on that later – I’ve been having a bit of a clear-out. Partly this has been physical: getting rid of old work-related stuff such as computer hardware and stationery, plus boxes and boxes of paperwork, all of which have cluttering up my home for far too long. But it’s also been an “online” clear-out, going through and deleting emails from about a million years ago (I exaggerate, but only slightly) and closing down countless old online accounts that I’m no longer likely to need, but which I’m sure are responsible for much of the stuff that ends up in my spam folder. This exercise got me thinking how I’ve been online for quite a long time – certainly since way before the internet even…

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