I know that there should be tools to make it easier to publish content to Twitter/Bluesky/Mastodon, without doing the work thrice. Do you know a good one? Can you share your experience with using them? Thanks! I hope the new platforms are not gonna get ditched immediately…
Edit: Wow I didn’t expect that the solutions were often expensive and complex tools (with way too much “AI”).
There’s Postiz?
Thank you for the hint. But… We have monney, but that might be too expensive ^^ I’ll try looking for alternatives
You can selfhost it. The reason it’s expensive, is because of their AI stuff, I think.
@meldrik @LegoBrickOnFire Please tell me you don’t get the #ai features if you selfhost :wink:
Not by default. But I can’t remember if you can actually set up AI with the selfhosted version.
@meldrik @LegoBrickOnFire What #CMS does your company have? What are you currently using for #Sociallistening / #socialmediamanagement ? Do you manage your own website? - Some background on these would help a heap.
Could simply creating a basic #ActivityPub server using #Wordpress or something else on your domain and then using a #crossposting to echo your #Twitter posts work as a starting point?
We have accounts on Buffer and Later Social, but they don’t seem active. I’ll look into what you said about wordpress. maybe that’s the best option. (I hope we are using wordpress now and not that weird system… but I digressl
@LegoBrickOnFire Well if you are using Buffer then keep using it - that’s a start - (you can add a Mastodon channel) - Later social (is that later.com?) - Whats the website ? we can easily check. Honestly until (and yes I know I bang on) brands really learn the value of Owned media (which if you are using your own domain - then ActivityPub stuff is really something you own) - then they won’t understand the value of Activitypub. - I cringe everytime I see a brand/organisation Fediverse account not using its own domain. If you want them to not screw up - then I recommend a combination of their own server on their own domain and actually making an effort to engage on the topic area (without being spammy)
I will remember that. For now I don’t think I will suggest self-hosting a mastodon instance (that’s what you are suggesting, right?) because we are a small non-profit and the less complexity, the better :)
@LegoBrickOnFire Ok you have really tipped my interest - Where are you located and are you a #nonprofit or a #charity ? - Feel free to DM me details if you don’t want to post publically. I think your situation is really very typical - I’m interested in learning about your tech stack and how you approach things - This is a project I’ve discussed with a few partners already.
@LegoBrickOnFire I was going to suggest this - Its #opensource and you can #selfhost but I haven’t had any experience with it directly either paying for the hosted version or selfhosting (I’d like to try it) @meldrik - What can you tell us about it?
I haven’t had much experience with it myself. I shortly selfhosted it myself. I know it works for most social media, including Lemmy. Not sure about Mastodon and Blusky.