I’ve made an app that makes it possible to schedule a post in Lemmy at an arbitrary time. It’s available at https://schedule.lemmings.world and can be used by people from any instance.
Let me know what you think!
P.S. This post is made using the app!
Edit: And it’s open source!
You must log in or register to comment.
What’s the usecase?
I think it would be useful to automate the posts for discussions following from the broadcast of a TV show, or a sports game.
I used it for example to post this very post at a time when people from US are most likely to engage (though I’m not sure if the Lemmy demographics is predominantly US, but my gut feeling is it is).
That’s great, thank you for this!
No problem, glad I could be of service!
As a side comment, I see that the very aggressive comments from earlier have been removed, thank you mods for your work!
Interesting.
I suppose the only thing is that you wouldn’t be able to upload an image to the instance as part of a post - you’d have to upload it somewhere else first, to then be able to refer to it.
For the detractors, register a throwaway account at some random instance, and use that if you want to test it out.
If you’re able to properly pore through the source to check it’s not stealing anything, then you’re capable of scheduling your own posts. The Lemmy API is very simple, it’s not rocket science.I suppose the only thing is that you wouldn’t be able to upload an image to the instance as part of a post
It would be possible but it would add more complexity, more costs etc. I’ll probably tackle the problem when I have time, but now I’m glad that I have a version that I can use working.
If you’re able to properly pore through the source to check
I even pointed out some interesting parts regarding this in the README.
kind of a pet peeve of mine: you should make the `` of the page something that can be found in bookmarks and history. Right now it is “Log in”.
It’s minor but in 3 months when I vaguely recall having seen this somewhere and want to use it, I will never find it.
Good idea, done!
deleted by creator
Fediverse has made me click on so many weird links that could possibly be phishing links. I give Lemmy instance links to other people and they say it might be a scam phishing link as well and I kind of get their point.
Don’t worry about them, it’s open source: https://github.com/RikudouSage/LemmySchedule
deleted by creator
Nice idea!
I get an error when logging in (lemm.ee):
The server returned a “500 Internal Server Error”.
I’ll make an account there tomorrow and try it out.
What about posting images?
On the todo list, not very urgent, though. Currently you can upload the image somewhere that allows direct link grabbing and put the direct link into the URL field. I use imgur for that.
Nice. Thanks :)
deleted by creator
What’s a “local version of this”?
As a side note, have you considered actually being nice to people?
This level of negativity is insane. Sorry you have to go through that.
Not my first rodeo with releasing software, there are always people like that.
deleted by creator
I totally get your demands and they’re fine with me! What I don’t particularly enjoy is being told to “GTFO”.
deleted by creator
Just stop, please. You told me to GTFO and I don’t like it. Learn to communicate, please. Yes, I’m super, super defensive when someone tells me to fuck off.
