Ben Daubney :prami:

Oxfordshire, UK • Finds stories in data • Opinions my own, etc • He’s just this guy, you know?

Web/blog:: https://bendaubney.com
Things I'm into /now:: https://bendaubney.com/now
Profile:: https://bendaubney.com/about

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2026-08-07 20:11:50 UTC

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I spot Linkin Park, Radiohead, and REM.
This does seem to be a sure fire way to get ironing burn though. Careful please.

2026-07-23 15:05:20 UTC

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I think for me it's because Mastodon is a little more intimate that I like it more.
I'm a big proponent of Dunbar's number (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar's_number) and deliberately follow around 150 or so people on whatever my social media of choice happens to be. I like that I know people here instead of just having passing comments to fly-by-nights.

2026-07-23 13:00:49 UTC

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I don't know about the hierarchy of bestness between Twitter, Threads, Bluesky, and Mastodon. I think Mastodon is fundamentally the *right* approach though - no CEO, no business plan, no algorithm, no adverts, just people running their own little communities.
...but a community requires participation. Interaction, not broadcast. I think that's tough for some people who just want to be the central character.

2026-07-23 11:08:50 UTC

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Sadly for many users Mastodon is a second- or third-tier platform. I see I lot of people I like who have set scripts to repost here what they post elsewhere and never really engage here at all. To them it's just another broadcast medium, which is sad.
Kottke's a good example. I like their work; there's no engagement or responses or replying here at all. It's just a feed from their blog.

2026-06-07 08:05:42 UTC

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Oh that’s a great one! Sounds a bit like the old “a fourteen inch pizza is actually 36% bigger than a twelve inch pizza” fact.

2024-06-12 17:27:53 UTC

Mastodon friends: be aware that it’s very likely that your profile has been “imported”, posts and all, into Maven, a social media startup whose CEO is ex OpenAI.
For example, here’s my social.lol profile shamelessly dropped into their platform as if I’m a user there: https://app.heymaven.com/profile/66735
Ew.
(Thanks for @npub1xse…lgk3 and @npub1u5z…esha for highlighting)