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Postiz v1.10.0 - open-source social media scheduling tool (introducing plugs) (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Hi everyone, it's been a while :)

Postiz is an open-source social media scheduling tool that offers scheduling on the following:

Instagram, YouTube, Dribbble, LinkedIn, Reddit, TikTok, Facebook, Pinterest, Threads, X, Slack, Discord, Mastodon and BlueSky.

https://github.com/gitroomhq/postiz-app

There's been tons of interest in Postiz. It's super exciting but also challenging—around 5-10 tickets per day (without a support team 😿), mainly coming from Portainer, Coolify, and Unraid—and I still haven't figured out how to solve it.

I need to balance shipping and customer support.

Tons of new features since the latest release:

  • Option to add stories to Instagram and tag people for collaboration.
  • Customer separation - you can group accounts per customer, and when you schedule, you can filter by customer.
  • Option to tag companies on LinkedIn (I wanted to tag people also, but it was not possible)
  • Fixes for different social media posts failing.
  • Introducing Plugs! This is a concept you can find in other tools that can boost your engagement for your current posts. Here are some examples:
    • Once your post reaches X amount of likes, repost it (to regain visibility to it)
    • Once your post reaches X amount of likes, add another message to it (all your existing commenters will get a notification)

What's next:

  • Public API - I have been too lazy to make it, I have to push more :)
  • One Inbox - so you can reply to all your messages from one place.
  • Google My Business provider
  • AI Agents - I am still trying to figure out what to do with it, but it looks interesting.

Special thanks to this community that supports me with every post ❤️

Any star to the repo is a blessing ⭐️

** Fediverse networks will come soon :)

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I asked this last time you posted here, but apparently you're more interested in self-promotion than actually being part of a community:

How does “AI post scheduling” differ from just "post scheduling"? Why is this something that needs AI at all?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Not sure how much this project does Insights, but that would be a valid reason: for AI to better assess when followers engage with the content in order to optimize publishing times.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ah. So they're not just self-promoing, they're self-promoing some corporate slop. Nice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Who would ever use a social media tool like this if they’re no interested in “corporate slop”?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Bloggers, writers, indie shop owners, event organizers 🤷 There are plenty of reasons to want to schedule posts without wanting to play into "engagement metrics".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You do know why they schedule posts? Because of more engagement 😀

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I've run fanfic exchanges and other similar events. I scheduled posts so I could make sure they went up at a specific time.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Is this post using bots for upvotes ?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe?

Or maybe people are just blindly upvoting

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

I upvoted because I'm generally excited by the idea of software that lets you interact with different social media via one interface. Idk if the project itself is good but it seems like a neat idea.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Why bots? Maybe people are genuinely interested in this software.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, I don't think im required to express my interest that way haha

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

not trashing the software itself (haven't tried it), this post and their github repo just felt weird

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I won't use it myself but developing any Open Source Software is more than deserving of one click of mine.

Also IIRC instance admins can see who upvotes so @ a lemmy.world admin if you think it's actually bots (I doubt its bots personally)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Hey super cool that you're offering a self hosted version

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Hah, I installed Postiz just yesterday, interesting to see this thread. It's like buffer or one of the other paid tools to schedule your social media posts and track engagement. Of course, of particular interest to our community, Postiz is self hosted.

It doesn't have as many features yet as the major SaaS businesses, but the software is looking good and quite usable right now. I'm sure the more people who use it and support the developer, the more this tool can grow.

For example you can plug in your OpenAI API key and get an LLM chat interface inside the software while writing social posts. But I don't think it learns your style or creates posts using any kind of system prompt yet unless you type it in each time.

Another thing I couldn't figure out so far is how to limit which social media channels individual users can see. For example my business has several different units and there's a different marketing team on each unit, so they shouldn't be able to post into other channels.

If you're in the business of needing to post regularly on a lot of channels I think postiz is worth checking out.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Thank you so much for doing this !

I'm actually interested in installing Coolify and trying Postiz, I might go for the hosted cloud plan for work stuff. I pay for a lot of free software, I appreciate the pro support but I like to know that if you make bad decisions like going closed source or rising the price by %500, I can still operate self hosted until I switch to an alternative or a fork. This hasn't happened with anything I pay for yet, but it has happened to software I don't use. So I like to be safe and have a plan B just in case.