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 @remindme@mstdn.social 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)
Now all we need is a way to use the bots without clogging the comment section with bot commands.
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.
Yeah I didn’t want that 😭 I was hoping people would read to the end
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.
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!
Will that bot work if I use lemmy.ml?
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!
That’s too bad. Karma and bots are two things I was happy to get away from.
At least it seems on here so far bots have to be explicitly called for.
We’ll see. It was like that at first on reddit too.
Either way, this post is impossible to read any real discussions because of the bot.
@[email protected] 5 minutes
@[email protected] 1 minute
@alldreadme Ok, I will remind you on Wednesday Jul 5, 2023 at 1:25 PM PDT.
@alldreadme Here is your reminder!
@[email protected] 1 minute
@[email protected] dm in 5 minutes
@[email protected] 1 minute
@[email protected] in 5 minutes
@[email protected] dm 2 minutes
@[email protected] in 2 days
@[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] in 1 minute
@IverCoder Ok, I will remind you on Tuesday Jul 4, 2023 at 8:20 PM PDT.
@IverCoder Here is your reminder!
@[email protected] in 1 hour
I’ll try it too: @[email protected] dm 5 minutes
@KLISHDFSDF Here is your reminder!
Is there a bot for polls?
Yes! I found @[email protected] for that
However, I don’t think polls federate on Lemmy and haven’t tested it yet so it might not work here
@lemonadebunny @hawkwind Hi! Yes I do polls but also I’m not a bot so I can engage with people as well! :BlobHajMlem:
Good bot
I had no idea!! Oops!! Good job on your polls then they’re very interesting 🫡
@lemonadebunny Thankyou!
