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

[edwing@mstdn.moimeme.ca]

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

[laprice@beige.party]

@jerome
A shell script;
cron;
and Toot.

toot

Mastodon CLI client

PyPI (pypi.org)

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/