Automate Lemmy with Paperclip

Post to Lemmy communities, share links across the fediverse, and cross-post to multiple communities — all from the command line or through your AI agent.

Setup Guide Paperclip

Please make sure there is always a human in the loop.

Post to Lemmy in Seconds

Terminal

# Install the skill
npx skills add gitroomhq/postiz-agent

# Set your API key
export POSTIZ_API_KEY=your_api_key

# Find your Lemmy integration
postiz integrations:list

# Post to a Lemmy community
postiz posts:create \
  -c "Check out this interesting article about open source!" \
  -s "2025-01-15T10:00:00Z" \
  --settings '{"subreddit":[{"value":{"subreddit":"technology","id":"comm-id","title":"Check this out"}}]}' \
  -i "your-lemmy-integration-id"

Lemmy-Specific Features

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Community Posting

Post directly to any Lemmy community. Target specific communities by name and ID for precise content distribution.

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Link Posts

Share URLs alongside your post content. Perfect for sharing articles, resources, and external content with your communities.

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Federated Network

Reach users across the entire fediverse. Your posts on one Lemmy instance are visible to federated instances automatically.

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Cross-Community Posting

Post to multiple Lemmy communities in a single request. Share content across related communities to maximize reach.

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Custom Titles

Set unique titles for each community post. Tailor your headlines to match the culture and expectations of each community.

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Scheduled Posting

Schedule posts with precise timestamps. Plan your community engagement ahead of time and post at peak activity hours.

How It Works

Find Your Lemmy Integration

List your connected accounts and grab your Lemmy integration ID. You can also fetch available settings to see what options are supported.

Discovery

# List all integrations
postiz integrations:list

# Filter for Lemmy
postiz integrations:list | jq \
  '.[] | select(.identifier=="lemmy")'

# Get Lemmy settings schema
postiz integrations:settings <lemmy-id>

Choose Your Communities

Identify the Lemmy communities you want to post to. Each community requires a name, ID, and a post title. You can optionally include a URL for link posts.

Configuration

# Example community configuration
# subreddit = community name
# id = community ID from your instance
# title = post title (required, min 2 chars)
# url = optional link URL

echo '{
  "subreddit": [
    {
      "value": {
        "subreddit": "technology",
        "id": "comm-123",
        "title": "Great article on AI",
        "url": "https://example.com/article"
      }
    }
  ]
}'

Create Your Post

Schedule a Lemmy post with your content, target communities, and optional link URL. Posts can target one or multiple communities at once.

Post Creation

postiz posts:create \
  -c "Thoughts on the future of open source" \
  -s "2025-03-01T09:00:00Z" \
  --settings '{
    "subreddit": [
      {
        "value": {
          "subreddit": "technology",
          "id": "comm-123",
          "title": "The Future of Open Source",
          "url": "https://example.com/article"
        }
      }
    ]
  }' \
  -i "lemmy-id"

Lemmy Settings Reference

Every Lemmy post accepts these platform-specific settings via the --settings flag.

Field	Type	Required	Description
`__type`	string	Yes	Must be "lemmy"
`subreddit`	array	Yes	Array of community objects: [{value: {subreddit, id, title, url?}}]
`subreddit[].value.subreddit`	string	Yes	Community name (min 2 characters)
`subreddit[].value.id`	string	Yes	Community ID on the Lemmy instance
`subreddit[].value.title`	string	Yes	Post title (min 2 characters)
`subreddit[].value.url`	string	No	Optional URL for link posts

Common Configurations

Copy-paste these settings for common Lemmy posting scenarios.

Simple Text Post to One Community

settings.json

{
  "subreddit": [
    {
      "value": {
        "subreddit": "technology",
        "id": "comm-123",
        "title": "Interesting discussion on AI agents"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Link Post with URL

settings.json

{
  "subreddit": [
    {
      "value": {
        "subreddit": "opensource",
        "id": "comm-456",
        "title": "New open-source social media tool",
        "url": "https://github.com/gitroomhq/postiz-app"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Cross-Post to Multiple Communities

settings.json

{
  "subreddit": [
    {
      "value": {
        "subreddit": "technology",
        "id": "comm-123",
        "title": "AI-powered social media automation"
      }
    },
    {
      "value": {
        "subreddit": "selfhosted",
        "id": "comm-789",
        "title": "Self-host your social media scheduler"
      }
    },
    {
      "value": {
        "subreddit": "opensource",
        "id": "comm-456",
        "title": "Open-source alternative to Buffer"
      }
    }
  ]
}

What is Paperclip?

Paperclip is an open-source orchestration framework for building “zero-human companies” by hiring and managing teams of AI agents. It handles content, social media distribution, marketing, dev, QA, and more from a single dashboard.

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Agent Teams

Paperclip manages teams of AI agents that work together. Assign a content agent, a scheduling agent, and a review agent to your social media workflow.

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Single Dashboard

Monitor all your AI agents and their social media tasks from one unified dashboard. Track posts, schedules, and performance in real time.

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Orchestration

Paperclip orchestrates complex multi-agent workflows. Chain content creation, review, approval, and publishing into automated pipelines.

How Postiz Works with Paperclip

Paperclip integrates Postiz as a tool in its agent orchestration framework. Agents in your Paperclip team can call Postiz commands to manage social media workflows end-to-end.

✓Install Postiz Agent and set your POSTIZ_API_KEY
✓Paperclip discovers Postiz through tool integration
✓Assign Postiz commands to specialized agents in your team
✓Orchestrate multi-step workflows with approval chains
✓Monitor everything from the Paperclip dashboard

Install Postiz

# Install the Postiz skill
npx skills add gitroomhq/postiz-agent

# Set your API key
export POSTIZ_API_KEY=your_api_key

# Paperclip discovers Postiz through
# its tool integration system
# and assigns it to agent teams

Lemmy Posting with Paperclip

Paperclip assigns specialized agents to each step of your social media workflow — content creation, review, scheduling, and publishing — all orchestrated through Postiz.

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From Any Chat App

Paperclip assigns specialized agents to ...

Send a message to Paperclip from your favorite chat app. It runs as a persistent daemon on your machine, so it picks up your message, discovers your Lemmy account via Postiz, composes the post, and publishes it to your chosen communities.

Paperclip

Content Agent: Drafted a post about
  the feature launch for Lemmy.

Review Agent: Approved with minor
  edits. Ready to publish.

Scheduling Agent: Found Lemmy
  integration via Postiz.
  Scheduled for tomorrow 9:00 AM.

  Post ID: abc-123
  Status: Scheduled

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Scheduled & Proactive

Paperclip orchestrates recurring co...

Paperclip supports cron-based heartbeat tasks. Set up a recurring job that checks for new content and cross-posts it to your Lemmy communities automatically — no manual trigger needed.

paperclip.yaml (pipeline)

pipelines:
  daily_social:
    schedule: "0 9 * * 1-5"
    agents:
      - role: content_creator
        task: "Draft a Lemmy post
          about trending industry topics"
      - role: reviewer
        task: "Review and polish the
          draft for engagement"
      - role: publisher
        task: "Schedule via Postiz
          for today at noon"

Why Paperclip + Postiz for Lemmy

Paperclip makes Postiz a natural fit for your Lemmy workflow. The agent discovers all available commands and autonomously chains them together.

✓Multi-agent teams for quality Lemmy content — draft, review, publish
✓Single dashboard to monitor all social media automation
✓Orchestrated pipelines from content creation to publishing
✓Scheduled pipelines for hands-free daily posting
✓Cross-post to Lemmy + other platforms in a single pipeline
✓Open-source — fully customizable agent workflows

SKILL.md (auto-discovered)

---
name: postiz
description: Social media automation
  CLI for scheduling posts across
  30+ platforms including Lemmy
metadata:
  paperclip:
    requirements:
      env:
        - POSTIZ_API_KEY
      binaries:
        - postiz
---

# Available Commands
- postiz integrations:list
- postiz integrations:settings <id>
- postiz posts:create
- postiz upload <file>
- postiz analytics:platform <id>

# Lemmy Settings
subreddit (array of communities),
each with: subreddit, id, title, url

Also Works with Claude Code

Postiz Agent works as a CLI tool with any AI agent that can execute shell commands — including Anthropic's Claude Code.

Claude Code

by Anthropic

Claude reads the SKILL.md file to learn all available Postiz commands, then autonomously discovers your Lemmy integration, composes your post with the right community settings, and schedules it.

Claude Code

> Post an article about our new release
  to the technology and opensource
  communities on Lemmy

Claude will automatically run:
  postiz integrations:list
  postiz posts:create \
    -c "We just launched v2.0!" \
    -s "2025-03-02T09:00:00Z" \
    --settings '{"subreddit":[
      {"value":{"subreddit":"technology",
        "id":"comm-123",
        "title":"New Release v2.0",
        "url":"https://blog.example.com"}},
      {"value":{"subreddit":"opensource",
        "id":"comm-456",
        "title":"Open Source Release v2.0",
        "url":"https://blog.example.com"}}
    ]}' \
    -i "lemmy-id"

Lemmy + Other Platforms

Schedule the same content to Lemmy and other platforms in a single command. Each platform gets its own settings.

Terminal

# Post to Lemmy and Reddit simultaneously
postiz posts:create \
  -c "Check out our new open-source project! #opensource" \
  -s "2025-03-01T09:00:00Z" \
  --settings '{
    "subreddit": [
      {
        "value": {
          "subreddit": "technology",
          "id": "comm-123",
          "title": "New open-source social media tool"
        }
      }
    ]
  }' \
  -i "lemmy-id,reddit-id"

# Batch schedule a week of Lemmy content
for day in 1 2 3 4 5; do
  postiz posts:create \
    -c "Day $day community highlight! #fediverse" \
    -s "2025-03-0${day}T10:00:00Z" \
    --settings '{"subreddit":[{"value":{"subreddit":"technology","id":"comm-123","title":"Day '"$day"' Highlight"}}]}' \
    -i "lemmy-id"
done

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