What's a good "scheduler" for Mastodon/Fediverse posts?

[weddige@gruene.social]

@jerome if you're only interested in Mastodon (or other Fediverse platforms) and don't mind self hosting: fedisuite

[edwing@mstdn.moimeme.ca]

@jerome I used to use TownCrier, but it’s gone

[laprice@beige.party]

@jerome
A shell script;
cron;
and Toot.

https://pypi.org/project/toot/

But, be transparent about what you are doing and why.

This isn't twitter or linkedin where you can drive by spam your audience and expect them to be grateful.

It's a place that expects and rewards personal connections and a bot posting a marketing pitch is going to get ignored at best and irritate people at worst.

[shochdoerfer@phpc.social]

@jerome I've been using this free service for a while: https://plan.fedilab.app/

It uses the scheduling feature of your Mastodon server and does not rely on any external service. I consider that a win.

[nik@toot.teckids.org]

@jerome

Mastodon itself can do that. It's just not exposed in the web UI. So, use a Mastodon client that has an UI for it, like Tusky on Android.

[jerome@jasette.facil.services]

@laprice I’ve been here since 2022, the tone policing is not required

Thank you for the project suggestion!

[jerome@jasette.facil.services]

@shochdoerfer Fascinating, had no idea Mastodon had the feature under the hood

Thank you!

[shochdoerfer@phpc.social]

@jerome very few clients implement this. I guess that's why nobody knows about it

[michelmorin@jasette.facil.services]

@jerome
Maybe Tuba and Tokodon could help...

[sen@beige.party]

@jerome I use @pachli, which supports post scheduling right in the post editor itself.

[nateb@mastodon.thenewoil.org]

@jerome I use https://www.scheduler.mastodon.tools/