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.

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/