Testing it with
testingitwith.com
Testing it with
@testingitwith.com
NOT MY MAIN ACCOUNT

→ @hilarybaumann.com's @fascinationdesign.com testing account.

It will probably look chaotic.

→ ★ The Bluesky Social Media Manager Tools page now has a home at:
https://www.hilarybaumann.com/social-media-manager-tools-for-bluesky/
Pinned
If anyone wants to know why I keep testing SMM tools & what my goals are: I have no control over when Meta/Facebook will error out on any tool.

It’s already happened to one, it’s my account alone, not the tool, & Meta has ZERO customer support at this point.

Options & backups on backups.
Tested:
- Muted an account with an existing DM chat & message came through fine.
- Muted an account without any existing DM chat & a new message also came through fine.

Muting accounts at this time does not affect DMs.
Thinking out loud:
if someone posts entirely news, they don’t post alt text which makes it impossible for me to properly filter them, but I don’t want to unfollow them (local journalist)…

I’ve muted them, added them to a list & that list is (unmuted) as an rss feed.

Does muting mute DMs too tho?
October 15, 2025 at 1:59 PM
woosh.link/testingitwit...

Yeah another thing I'm poking at.
woosh.link
September 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Riverside.FM | Dashboard
riverside.fm
September 20, 2025 at 3:26 AM
2025-05-23 14.12.41
tall grass
flic.kr
September 18, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Reminder to self because these haven't been a high priority...
plus
vanity.blue
blueskymeter.com (though I think I've had this one bookmarked for a long time?)
New (new to me) SMM platforms I'll test soon:
posthyve.com
theblue.social
swat.io/en/
July 1, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Publer for the same video now... I need to test it with mp4 instead of mov like I said I would before. And check my file size since these tools might not be doing any compression.
June 5, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Test video from Postpone
June 5, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Testing an upload of tall grass again to see what happens with the compression. And hopefully this will look less pixelated and is what "fixed video quality on the web" meant. 😎

Uploading via web browser and not iphone app.
June 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I ended up with rate limit exceeded for the first time in awhile. I probably should have tested with this account instead AND I clearly need an alt account or two for me as a person.
May 30, 2025 at 10:32 PM
test
May 30, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Finding it interesting that using different tools gets you different shaped video posts of the same content.

One platform renders as a square, another as a landscape oriented rectangle when in fact the file (and when opened full screen) is portrait oriented rectangle.
May 24, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I'll continue to poke at the video tomorrow with more advanced tools. And also retry some of the SMM tools. Wondering if a few may have issues with .mov vs .mp4.

My normal test file is an mp4.
May 24, 2025 at 2:49 AM
One more test for tonight Statusbrew not compressed on the computer
May 24, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Tall grass video from Postflow
May 24, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Tall grass video via Publer 1080p version because of the 50mb limit
May 24, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Tall grass video via Postpone.app not compressed on the computer
May 24, 2025 at 2:25 AM
This was uploaded from the iphone - going to test this same file a few ways. Via computer, a few SMM tools and also some additional resolutions to see if compressing on the computer first helps it at all.
It’s light jacket weather out so afternoon walk in nature it is today
May 24, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Hat alt text test - mobile vs app
May 3, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Looking for the alt text … got language … got content warning … I have to ask the dev ... It’s not actually an adult photo… not even bourbon this time.
May 2, 2025 at 10:53 PM
New (new to me) SMM platforms I'll test soon:
posthyve.com
theblue.social
swat.io/en/
April 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Hilarious side effect of my tests is that I forgot some of my settings for using replies to posts with the links on bluesky are used as comments on my site (at least I have my site set to not auto-approve those comments.)
March 27, 2025 at 8:16 PM
One more time …

without a link that causes an embed… Let’s see if we get images this time.

original: https://www.hilarybaumann.com/2025/03/27/one-more-time/

2025-03-27 19:11
word count: 16
One more time …
without a link that causes an embed... Let's see if we get images this time.
www.hilarybaumann.com
March 27, 2025 at 7:23 PM
New test post for https://echofeed.app/

This is some text to see what posts. I should probably write a fair amount of copy here. Maybe an extra image?

original: https://www.hilarybaumann.com/2025/03/27/new-test-post-for-https-echofeed-app/

2025-03-27 18:53
word count: 22
EchoFeed
Send your posts all over the web
echofeed.app
March 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM