Why YSK: I’ve seen several commenters asking if there were specific bots such as RemindMe
However, there are so many bots already on mastodon that will federate with us! Check out botsin.space, a masto-instance specifically made for hosting bots
Just tag @[email protected] and say the time after (I recommend you not do it on this post unless you have an actual reason though as it could spam their servers)
@[email protected] dm 1 minute
@[email protected] in 1 hour
@KLISHDFSDF Here is your reminder!
I’ll try it too: @[email protected] dm 5 minutes
This is insanely cool… I don’t know why it never occurred to me that bots on other platforms could work here due to federation, but it makes so much sense. Thanks for sharing!
I also love the idea that we can have “bot instances” (as mentioned by OP) so an instance can decide if they want most bots or not. Not sure if communities themselves can exercise that kind of control but that would be amazing as well.
Add that to the rapidly growing lists of things that are improved on a decentralized platform!
Will that bot work if I use lemmy.ml?
@[email protected] dm in 1 minute
Piggybacking on your comment to lessen spam at top. @[email protected] in 1 minute DM
Got nothing. Hbu?
Nothing either :(
@[email protected] I think the format has to be “@bot@server time” you both put “in” after the bots username
@[email protected] 10 minutes
@[email protected] 2 minutes
@[email protected] dm 1 minute
@[email protected] in 2 days
@kilgore_trout Ok, I will remind you on Thursday Jul 6, 2023 at 11:11 PM PDT.
@[email protected] 1 minute
@alldreadme Here is your reminder!
@alldreadme Ok, I will remind you on Wednesday Jul 5, 2023 at 1:25 PM PDT.
@[email protected] dm in 5 minutes
@[email protected] in 5 minutes
@[email protected] dm 2 minutes
@[email protected] dm in 5 minutes
@[email protected] 1 minute
Now all we need is a way to use the bots without clogging the comment section with bot commands.
Yeah I didn’t want that 😭 I was hoping people would read to the end
Common sense and decency would suggest doing them as child comments so that the whole thread of them can be easily collapsed.
I can see that you’re new to the Internet. Welcome!
I’m just yelling into the void. It’s therapeutic.
Exactly! Now I’m sad/disappointed the threads will be drowned with commands.
Yes, it’s neat to have these tools but it doesn’t actually provide anything to the discussion at hand.
At least, you can add dm before the time so that the bot will respond to you privately.
Uh, actually, how do you do the tagging? It looks like only one user here has managed it, for everyone else, the first ‘@’ is being ignored.
Let’s try it out @[email protected] in 1 minute
EDIT: It works, I think you have to write the number out
@[email protected] in 3 years
@Jeom @lemonadebunny (dev here) we don’t currently support setting reminders that last for years
Good dev.
A bit pessimistic though.
