Is there a !remindme bot scooting around lemmyverse?
If there isn't yet, what're the challenges to overcome in making one?
Not that I can code, just hoping for at least a layman's understanding.
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Yes. There is one on Mastodon that you can use on Lemmy thanks to federation.
Let's see if it still works
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@squirrel Ok, I will remind you on Monday Feb 24, 2025 at 8:58 AM UTC.
This is cool, you can even request the reminder to be sent to your DM! (Add "dm" between remindbots name-pinging and time)
Yes. It's explained in the bots' bio
@squirrel Here is your reminder!
Good bot!
Ok. Now we need a good bot bot.
Can you explain this to me more. It seems mastodon account can be used to post on Lemmy, but is the opposite possible? Can I use Lemmy account on mastodon?
Lemmy does not normally display microblog content from Mastodon. You cannot follow users and see their posts listed on their profile or elsewhere, and as a result you cannot see or comment on their posts either.
Mastodon users can, however, tag a community on Lemmy the same way they can tag a user. If they do so, their post will appear as a thread in the tagged Lemmy community, and Lemmy users will be able to respond to them.
Mastodon users can basically pop up in the comment section any time, should they stumble over it for some reason or another. This could happen in many different ways: They could follow a hashtag, someone could share (boost) content into their feed, they could be mentioned, or they could read the Lemmy community and manually open the thread in Mastodon to reply.
Nooooo!
I think its partly because the Federation process takes time (which can throw off any more precise notifications between instances) but much more significantly because many of the most active Lemmy users really hate bots.
Yes, but there are several utility bots that are actually pretty useful.
Video download, Remind me, acronym bot. What lemmy clients could do - collapse their messages by default and highlight the bot name.
Auto-collapse bots is a good setting. Each bot's function is in their name anyway
Yeah, we could probably highlight it with the colour as well.
And/or if bot accounts are identifiable (based on metadata) - give user an option to hide specific bots. Like block button, but with its own settings option.
I like the random haiku ones
Most bots are annoying but the remindme bot seems useful.
[Media Bias Fact Checker bot has entered the chat full of hope]
No! Bad bot!
Yeah, even I disliked my own comment lol
I've used it for years on reddit. It really is useful!
I think that's a functionality that would better be integrated into the client's. Idk if there are any out there already that can do it though. As someone who didn't use the bot on reddit I felt it was kind of annoying on reddit to always have two or more of the top comments be completely unrelated to the subject. It felt like spam
Iirc there is one, hosted on Mastodon. But because of federation, you pretty much can call it here.
I've only seen post bots, not comment bots.
I would just put reminders in my calendar app otherwise.