One brief, a full Lemmy plan
Hermes breaks a goal into steps on its own: draft the posts, upload media, schedule each one and report back with what it queued for Lemmy.
LemmyAutomate Lemmy with Hermes
Hand Hermes one brief and it plans the whole week: drafting Lemmy posts, scheduling them at the right times and reporting back when the queue is full.
Quick start
Install the CLI where Hermes executes commands, then hand over the Lemmy plan in plain language.
Terminal
npm install -g postqueenexport POSTQUEEN_API_KEY=your_api_key # A task for Hermes:# "Plan next week on Lemmy: draft five# posts, schedule them and list# what you queued"What Hermes can run on Lemmy
Windows that fit Lemmy
Tell Hermes when your communities are busiest and it schedules posts into that window on Lemmy, day after day, without reminders.
Community rules respected
Hermes targets the exact communities you choose and keeps every submission reviewable, so you can check each one against community rules first.
Drafts until you are ready
Ask Hermes for drafts only. They sit on the postqueen calendar unscheduled, so you can edit them and pick the time yourself, and nothing reaches your community members on Lemmy until you do.
Three steps to a full queue
Discover Lemmy
Hermes calls postqueen to list your connected communities and sees what Lemmy supports, so drafts start from real capabilities, not guesses.
Draft with Hermes
Give it the brief. The agent writes Lemmy-shaped posts and proposes publish times that match when your community members are around.
Check and publish
Look over the queue on the postqueen calendar and change anything you want. postqueen publishes each post at its time, and Hermes can pull the results after.
What Lemmy allows
Hermes reads these limits from postqueen before it composes, so a draft that would be rejected never reaches the queue.
- Post title
- 3 to 200 characters
- Post body
- Markdown, up to about 10,000 characters
- Attachments
- One link or image per post, with extra images embedded in the Markdown body
- Communities
- Every post belongs to exactly one community, so a cross-post is a separate submission
- Account
- A regular account on a Lemmy instance, with no developer app to register
- Rate limits
- Set per instance, and defaults allow only a few new posts per 10 minutes
LemmyEverything postqueen does on Lemmy
Scheduling, AI drafts, analytics and team roles, in one guide.
F.A.Q.
Frequently asked questions
How does Hermes connect Lemmy to postqueen?
Install the postqueen CLI where Hermes runs commands and export your API key. Every command returns JSON, so the agent can create, schedule and list Lemmy posts reliably.
Can Hermes schedule Lemmy posts at exact times?
Yes. Give it exact slots or a rule like mornings at nine and it sets publish times on the posts it creates, keeping your communities active on a steady rhythm.
Will Hermes publish to Lemmy on its own?
Only if you ask it to. Tell it to save drafts and nothing is scheduled: the posts wait on the calendar until you set a time. Tell it to schedule, and they go out at the times you can see, which is the setup most people move to once they trust the output.
Can one brief cover Lemmy and other channels too?
Yes. postqueen connects 30 channels, so Hermes can turn the same brief into Lemmy posts plus adapted versions for every other channel you run.
Does Hermes access cost extra on postqueen?
No. The agent uses your regular API key and plan limits: unlimited posts on every plan, and channel counts from 5 on Creator up to uncapped on Ultimate.
Do I need an API key or a developer app for Lemmy?
No. Lemmy has no app registration to go through: you connect the regular account you already post from and tell postqueen which instance it lives on. Publishing then happens through that instance's HTTP API under your own username, so anything your account can do in a browser it can do from the queue.
Can I cross-post to several communities, or to Reddit?
Both. Select several Lemmy communities and postqueen files a separate submission in each one, which is exactly how a Lemmy cross-post works, and the same draft can also go to Reddit, Mastodon or any of the 30 supported channels with per-platform wording. Space multi-community posts out rather than firing them in the same second: instances rate limit new posts, and moderators notice a wall of identical submissions. Because Lemmy federates over ActivityPub, Mastodon accounts can already follow a Lemmy community and see the post without a second submission.
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