Oh man, this bums me out.
Don’t worry, the bot will still respond and it will get 10,000 upvotes from other bots and replies like “grond” and “15 years is 7889400 minutes” and “pass me the breastplate stretcher!” and the one real person left on reddit will smile and think “I love being part of such a large and thriving online community”.
Same :-(
Hello fellow blue name person.
RemindMe bot is no longer functional following the API pricing change, and many Redditors are still unaware of this fact.
I thought bots were exempt from paying?
The unpopular ones can be used since they don’t reach the API calls free limit.
I think only mod specific bots were immune. As idiotic as Reddit has been, it might still be running, but, how will it remind those of us that erased all comments and then deleted our accounts? I have a feeling that wasn’t an official bot, so it was probably programed correctly so it won’t spam them with replys to deleted accounts 😢
I looked it up now, and it does sound like Reddit made an exception for the reminder bot according to the bot’s dev: https://www.reddit.com/r/RemindMeBot/comments/13yo8ay/will_the_reddit_api_change_kill_remindmebot/
Which means it couldn’t have been made now
This whole thing is really fucking stupid
Solid work, and solid username. I’m feeling better about the fediverse every day.
“what’re you gonna do, arrest me??” -RemindMeBot, maybe
Oh shit no way, I didn’t know that? Is that the case for most of the random reddit bots? For some reason hearing that the RemindMe bot is dead as well makes me extra sad 😥
I used to get a notification every year for some dude who had posted on reddit that he was alone on his birthday one year. He stopped replying several years ago, but I still messaged him each year at the prompt of remindme. So that’s also a use case.
@remindme@mstdn.social 30 years
@afoutopatisa Ok, I will remind you on Wednesday Jul 9, 2053 at 9:22 AM PST.
Good bot
@remindme@mstdn.social 5 years
@46_and_2 Ok, I will remind you on Saturday Jul 15, 2028 at 5:38 PM PDT.
This is the best showerthought I’ve seen in ages.
I think I’m going to like it here!
remind me 5 years
I was here in the beginning
You were a good bot, RemindMe. I want you to remember that.
!RemindMe to think of you. Good bot.
In retrospect those were ridiculously optimistic
I mean, most of them were meant to be silly, but reddit was also around a shockingly long time for an internet community. Consider that Myspace was only around for three years before it started losing status. Reddit, by comparison, was a major site for a decade and is only now starting to drop. And the remindme bot has been around for most of that time. A bunch of those ‘remind me in a few years’ posts were actually tripped.
You realize reddit hasn’t died and still has millions of users?
Of course, but cracks are starting to show. My point was that this is an absurdly long time for something like reddit to be around at all, so the remindmebot comments that were set for years out weren’t as out there as the guy above me seemed to think. Hell, reddit share holders seem to be upset with what’s going on, so there are decent odds they’ll revert the changes and we’ll be back there in a year.
Hell, reddit share holders seem to be upset with what’s going on
Not that I don’t believe this, seems plausible to me⎯but would you happen to have a source for that.
so there are decent odds they’ll revert the changes and we’ll be back there in a year.
Hate to say this but I’m still clinging on to Reddit for some of the niche subs, but hopefully they’ll spring up here.
At those lengths I always just thought it was more for the joke, rather than the actual reminder.
Question for you, when I try to go there it makes me log in, but I don’t have an account for that instance. Do I have to create a new account for each instance?
You can make separate accounts on each instance, or you can access content on other instances from your instance. Unfortunately when you click on a URL someone shares that takes you out of your instance, but you can copy/paste that URL into your instance’s search box to access that post from your instance.
What’s an instance?
Great question. An instance is just the name of the site through which you’re accessing the Lemmyverse. So you’re on the lemmy.world instance, while I’m on aussie.zone.
You can think of Lemmy a little like email. You could be on Gmail while I’m on Outlook, but both of us can communicate with each other just fine, even though our email providers are completely different.
Thanks for that explanation. That was my first post and this place is confusing and full of random exclamation marks lol.
So are instances automatically assigned based on region? Or did I choose this instance? Can I switch, or would I notice a difference?
It’s just like with email, you choose which provider you go with. You must have gone to lemmy.world when you first came to Lemmy, so that’s your current provider.
Right now, you can easily just go and sign up with another instance if you like. There are a heap of them, and if you google you can find out more about different ones. Some are general, like Lemmy.world, some have a geographical focus, like aussie.zone. Others are based more on shared interests, like ttrpg.network.
On Lemmy, the equivalent of Reddit’s “subreddits” are called “communities”. And each instance has its own communities. Right now we’re commenting on !showerthoughts@lemmy.world, which you might also see referred to as /c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world. Those both mean the same thing. But there’s also a !showerthoughts@sh.itjust.works, and those two are completely separate communities with their own mods and their own rules. And even though your account is on lemmy.world, you could go into that other community and post or comment.
Each instance has its own admins as well, and those admins have powers similar to that of admins on Reddit. They can ban users, remove communities on their own instance, etc. Most often the thing you’ll see talked about in terms of admin powers is “defederation”. That’s where the admins of one instance prevent users from another instance from interacting with them. Different admins might have different policies for why they would or would not defederate another instance, and you may want to ensure the instance you use has a defederation policy that you’re comfortable with—and one where your own instance hasn’t been defederated by other instances that you want to interact with.
Right now, to move to another instance you just have to create a new account. Your old comments and posts etc. will be left behind. But there has been some talk about being able to migrate your account from one instance to another, and it’s theoretically possible. Mastodon is a fediverse equivalent to Twitter (in the same way that Lemmy is a fediverse Reddit) and I believe account migration is possible on Mastodon. For the most part though, no, you won’t really notice the difference between different instances.
What’s a fediverse?
Probably one of the few useful bots ever added to Reddit.
We didn’t need a million and one spelling, grammar and whatever other stupid bots the place got infected with. Hopefully Lemmy doesn’t end up with them either.
Personally, I think the grammar bots fit right into Reddit culture.
Everyone is a smarty-pants on Reddit!
I do hope that people respect the instance hosts and go easy on the trivial bots when it comes to Lemmy though.
I mean, I like knowing when I’m saying something incorrectly, and learning the correct way to say it. I value communication through text a lot because I have some issues with communicating verbally, so I like to know how to properly write what I want to say. So I didn’t mind the grammar/spelling bots as long as they were polite about it, they were just providing accessibility to knowledge, at least in my eyes. It was the rude or condescending ones I didn’t like.
I didn’t mind the fact that it was there, I was always just annoyed at how useless the memory hints were. Like yeah, of course I could spell “neither” if I just remember the e comes before the i… that’s the problem.
It’s like saying “if you want to be rich just get more money” or “NASCAR is easy cuz it’s all left turns”
The “I before E” rule is weird.
Yeah… A lot of exceptions to that rule, mainly because of how the English language developed.
I wish there were more. I just found out at work that “deprecated” and “depreciated” are different words, it was so embarrassing.
I always thought it’s funny to see such a spelling bot on linguistics themed subs where everyone was like “fck you descriptivist” and they were downvoted into oblivion
fck you descriptivist
You mean prescriptivist? 😅
(beep boom I’m a human)
It’s about time that people understood that “Everything on the internet lasts forever” is a falsehood formed from a Web 2.0 mindset. Now those big Web 2.0 sites everyone thought would dominate the internet forever are dying, and the only thing saving what was on those websites (the internet archive) is being constantly sued by greedy publishers.
I think that warning is more about the lack of control you have over your own data. You post a pic or political view online and it will be duplicated before you know it and you won’t be able to delete it on your own terms.
Yep, it’s just Murphy’s Law of data: everything you regret posting will be in public archives forever, everything you want to preserve will have gotten deleted the next time you try to find it.
I think if we’re being honest it’s just information theory right? You but any sort of information out there (digital or not) and that info has ripple effects and propagates
@remindme@lemmy.icyserver.eu 5 years “Lets see if this works”
Get all of the remindme bots going haha
@RemindMe@programming.dev remind me in 5 years
Gotcha! I’ll remind you at Monday, February 21, 2028, 6:44:37 PM UTC.
Have to learn some rust and thought it couldn’t hurt to develop a Remind Me bot ^^
@RemindMe@lemmy.ml remind me in 5 years
Okay I’ll remind you on 2028-7-15 10:37:32 UTC
Oh my god… WHERE’S EPOXY HOTDOG GUY?!
Has anyone checked on epoxy hot dog guy?!
Epoxy hotdog guy returns to reddit after a 5 year hiatus:
uhhh… context pls?
A guy put a hotdog in epoxy…
And is checking in periodically with videos showing if it’s decayed or stayed pristine in its cryogenic epoxy prison.
Well so has it decayed or not?
Oh I finally got a notification of this reply 13 days later :) I haven’t been following it much but as far as I know it hasn’t visibly decayed.
Kind of sad if you think about it… After my heart attack and open heart surgery, I had considered setting up a bot to randomly send an /r/aww or /r/funny link to my wife every day after I die. Glad I didn’t now. :(
Glad you’re feeling better! Check out futureme.org to send emails to the future. I believe whichever email address you send to needs to confirm that it’s ok, but then you can send emails years into the future. I’ve been using it since 2010 or so and trying to write a letter to myself every year that I’ll receive on my 50th bday. Sometimes my wife and I also write each other one too.
As much as I’ll miss Remindme!Bot, I’m going to miss all those LotR-Bots a lot more. 🥺
Poor bot will be constantly woken up only to remember that there is no one to remind. Only the void.
Humanity will die its last death when the bots send their last reminder.
Well, I think there was one guy who wanted to be reminded about the heat death of the universe. Hopefully he set a reminder somewhere else, too.
Damn this is a quality shower thought…sad but profound.
LMFAO, I didn’t even see what community this was in. I thought I was in one of the many reddit, migration, or tech subs. This was an amazing shower thought!
