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

[jerome@jasette.facil.services]

What's a good "scheduler" for Mastodon/Fediverse posts? Like I write 3-4 posts in advance, and schedule them ahead of time?

#askfedi

[indyradio@kafeneio.social]

@jerome as if there is an audience waiting. That is why someone took the time to write one.

[cxiao@infosec.exchange]

@jerome I use 2 options:

• Buffer (https://buffer.com), which has pretty good Mastodon support. You can schedule an entire thread with it as well. The only limitation is that it doesn't really know about per-instance character limits, it limits you to 500 characters per post regardless of instance.

• Phanpy (https://github.com/cheeaun/phanpy), an alternative Mastodon client which allows you to schedule posts right from the compose box. There is a little calendar icon under the compose box. I believe it uses the Mastodon server-side post scheduling API (https://github.com/cheeaun/phanpy/issues/188), so the scheduled post is just queued on your instance server, and will get sent even if the Phanpy client is closed.

[deborahh@cosocial.ca]

@jerome I use @moshidon android client, each post has scheduling option. It's not good for reading quote posts (yet) but maybe worthwhile for writing your posts?

[weddige@gruene.social]

@deborahh @jerome tusky has this option as well. The scheduling itself is a Mastodon feature and happens on the server, so it doesn't matter if you're offline at the time the post should go online.

[deborahh@cosocial.ca]

@weddige really!! I didn't know!! Thx!

@jerome

[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/