Open an Imgur account and you can use the Longshot simple social media post tool for free right here.

I got tired of all of the free trial social media post and schedule tools that would severely limit my ability to simply post a given image and some text across the social media platforms that I use: Facebook, X, Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, Substack, Blogger. So I used LLMs to generate a very basic system (which I had to tweak a bit, again using LLMs) which at least prevented me having to copy and paste to each new social media site.

TO USE

1. Log in manually to all of the social media sites you want to post to in the same browser window using different tabs. *Required

2. Go to this page.

3. Enter the content in the form fields, and use the post buttons to publish.

4. Go to the auto-opened pages and check and post.

YOU NEED AN IMGUR CLIENT ID

This is so you don't have to upload your images to this blog, but still don't have to use URLs for images, which approach often fails in social media sites.

 

Go to imgur to set up an imgur client ID. 

NO TO imgur

If you don't want to use imgur, there's a less powerful clipboard based version here which uses your local system's clipboard to store the image for you to paste into each target site.

NEXT VERSION

Update 1: Make the post action for each target SM site automatic too. This might take some time as it involves the use of each target platform's API.