3d ago

Convinced my organisation to use Mastodon and Bsky. Any userfull tools to automate crossposting?

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").

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If you want to remove the complexity and AI fedica is your best bet...
Give Fedica a try - they have a very generous free tier which includes both Mastodon and Bluesky.
- Their free tier seems attractive indeed. I will have a look <3
- @leraje So the interesting thing straight away is that Fedica seems to allow me to register my Friendica server using the 'Mastodon' channel - I didn't have so much luck with Buffer
  
  Yep, it seems very well put together - I've chatted with the dev briefly and they seem very aware of the fedi side of things and how different services can interoperate.
- @leraje Thanks - Didn't know about Fedica. I'll have to add it to the list of supported services (I really need to start a new website) - The freeplan acutally looks quite good.
  
  People might remember Tweepsmap. It was specifically for Twitter but after the API debacle they rebranded the fedica.
connect both to bridgy fed and you can follow bluesky users on mastodon and mastodon users on bluesky
Some mobile apps support Mastodon and Bluesky at the same time - like SoraSNS or Openvibe
@LegoBrickOnFire I understand that #Postiz and #buffer buffer.com/social-media-terms/… say they support it. I still find it weird that #Hootsuite doesn't appear to (I'm not a current user) and neither does #SproutSocial - What I find weird is that #marketers know the value of #ownedmedia and the challenges of #disintermediation that the big social networks cause for them - but there doesn't really appear to be a good guide to managing #brands on #Activitypub - Ditto for #Government agencies
- It's a little jarring trying to read text on lemmy with embedded tags in the Friendica style. It feels like an advertisement.
  
  @DarkSpectrum Ah sorry man. Hope it doesn't look too bad - Its a while since I used Lemmy directly. Dangers of the fediverse eh?
  
  I've always found hashtags to be completely useless because they're almost always used to promote ads. Spent a few days playing around on Bsky and every single "feed" I added was just chock full of irrelevant porn ads. A lot of it was nasty shit.
There’s Postiz?
- Thank you for the hint. But... We have monney, but that might be too expensive ^^ I'll try looking for alternatives
  
  @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?
  
  You can selfhost it. The reason it’s expensive, is because of their AI stuff, I think.
- @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.
@LegoBrickOnFire What are they using for Posting now? The best option is to keep using what ever they use (if it supports ActivityPub). Beyond that I've wondered whether the next best approach is to start with a tool that replicates your posts On your own domain - The point being they you want to be authorative and not end up getting tied into any particular server.
- I don't actually know. Currently I believe that they just manually log into the accounts on instagram and twitter to do the posts. now, with more accounts to handle that approch might be harder
  
  @LegoBrickOnFire Ok.. so just guessing that the key thing you might want to sell is the #Sociallistening / #engagement features of a solution alongside the value of #ownedmedia that ActivityPub brings. I think that your company is in a common situation. - Do you run a #CRM system?
  
  You might propose a transition plan in which the company continues posting using current channels while the details on exactly how these alternatives are integrated into the larger marketing strategy and day to day activities is worked out.
Based on your username, maybe you'll like !lego@piefed.social
- Surprisingly, given my username, I don't own any lego!
  I chose the username after a professor made an analogy between (programming) tools and lego bricks. He introduced a tool a "This lego brick will turn out to be so good that it is litterally on fire". I found it really funny, and now it's my username :)

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