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Margaret Fero @[email protected] · 2026-05-14 · 16:13 UTC

It's my first session visit of #pycon !! I'm not awake enough for live posting yet but today I'm at the #educationsummit

#pycon #educationsummit

Margaret Fero @[email protected] · 2026-05-05 · 07:32 UTC

Okay! People at #nbpy kept asking me whether I was going to #pycon US and being quite surprised that I wasn't sure yet, but it's now confirmed: I am going to pycon this year! See many of you very soon! ✨

#nbpy #pycon

Margaret Fero @[email protected] · 2026-04-25 · 17:27 UTC

Well @chrisjrn just said what I was thinking: @robin called him (accurately) a "cloud fixer-upper", and that really does sound like a professional title in our industry! #nbp

#nbp

Margaret Fero @[email protected] · 2026-03-29 · 22:09 UTC

Uhoh, my work phone number is broken, and it looks like has been for almost two weeks 😬 I can see a missed call and a bunch of text message notifications within the app, but I've not gotten any call forwarding or push notifications, and I still can't see text message contents.

I thought it was odd that I'd not gotten text-based #rsac spam, but I remained unreasonably hopeful. Updating, clearing cache and restarting the app all didn't get it.

Anybody else seen this kind of VoIP problem? How did you fix it?

#rsac

Margaret Fero @[email protected] · 2025-10-04 · 04:43 UTC

CW: Very long post comparing my experience live blogging conference talks on here vs Bsky vs old Twitter

I live-posted while watching conference talks on Twitter for years and have done quite a bit of it on Mastodon (as well as last year's #Monktoberfest on both Mastodon and Bluesky). This week was my first time live-posting only to Bluesky, though, and it was an interesting new experience!

- Compared to last year, the rise of custom domains on Bluesky has made handle discovery REALLY hard; it just doesn't do well finding people who aren't on bsky(.)social. Mastodon meanwhile has been getting much better in this regard, and I think my usability preference may flip there soon.
- Once you think you've found a person, though, Bsky is much easier to confirm on than Mastodon still. I've tried a bunch of clients and they all show the autocomplete suggestion text about the same size as the text you're typing at largest, with a very small photo. The larger photo size is SO helpful while also trying to summarize key points and listen.
- I really like the Mastodon clients' handling of pasted-in hashtags, where the full details don't pop up and obscure text like on Bsky. I usually keep "- @handle #event" in my clipboard throughout a talk to start every post with, and that was kinda annoying to navigate in the Bsky client. I think old-Twitter was still the best at this.
- Quote posts remain one of my favorite means of engagement, and I'm very excited to soon not have that as a deciding factor in where to post.
- When adding alt text, I very much prefer Mastodon; the image you're describing is way bigger in my client, and it's easy to read text on a slide to type out. The stability of the alt text editor feels a bit better on Bsky though.
- I couldn't scroll up more than one post when replying to my own thread on Bsky, which made continuity quite difficult. I'm pretty sure Mastodon is stronger here, and old-Twitter definitely was.
- I was really shocked how many people I thought I was already following but turned out to not be. Oops!

Overall, I think Mastodon is still mostly a during-conferences platform for me, but it's gotten really notably strong for that. Thanks, everybody who's been working on it! ✨

#monktoberfest #event

Margaret Fero @[email protected] · 2025-04-28 · 17:58 UTC