2y ago

Now no one will ever see all those super long !remindme bot posts set for 5, 10 or 15 years on Reddit

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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 😢
  
  "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 😥

You were a good bot, RemindMe. I want you to remember that.
- !RemindMe to think of you. Good bot.

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

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.
- I did the same, I hope they got them.
  
  Me too. Should have thought about that before I nuked my history...
  
  Damn, I wonder if it's the same guy. The post I originally saw him on had a bunch of people hopping on to the remindme thing, but its impossible to know how many followed through.

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 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"
  
  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
  
  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.
- That one was good. I also liked the one that counted how many times someone has said the n word, but I do not think the n word is allowed here (which is better).
  
  Here on which instance? That's the nice part about Lemmy, those rules are set per instance.
- Probably one of the few useful bots ever added to Reddit.
  My favorite bot was AutoMod. The 3rd party app I used allowed me to block that bot, which was always the top post in every single thread.
  
  wait so you liked it because you could block it? I fucking hated automod BECAUSE i always had to block it.
- My favorite was the would of/would've bot.
  
  I feel like I haven’t seen a single person use “could of” or “would of” here.
  The defense on Reddit was always “NOT EVERY1 ENGLISH FIRST LANGUAGE”
  I don’t have the largest sample size, but I’ve never met someone who makes this mistake whose first language isn’t English.
- 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.

Like shadows burned on the sides of buildings in Hiroshima
- Yes exactly. Wait. What?
  
  I think they are talking about this but I don't exactly see how this is related to the topic
- No. I am willing to ignore a lot of idiotic crap on the internet. But no, you cannot compare literal lives lost to a stupid Reddit bot.
  
  It's a joke, mate.
- Wow, what a coincidence. I was just there for in the museum for the first (and probably only) time in life and the next moment I open Lemmy, I read this.

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?
  
  Look up whathowwhy on YouTube. He's a dude from the UK who puts stuff into epoxy. A few years a go he put a hotdog into a cube of epoxy and would do periodic video updates on the hotdog. One year I actually watched the New Years Eve livestream of the hotdog slowly spinning on a dias. He'd put a little party hat on it and the live chat was absolutely hilarious.
  
  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.

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.
- The idea of old sites dying is what inspired me to hunt down really old hobby blogs and save up their images. Then contact creators and anybody who replied (sometimes it was a bit of detective work to find an old email) and signed off was reposted on my blog. Those old geocities type websites aren’t going to last forever without maintenance.
  My effort is very small, but I think people should search out Web 1.0 and 2.0 old stuff in their wheelhouse and preferably with original author permission, rehost it.
- “Everything on the internet lasts forever” is a falsehood formed from a Web 2.0 mindset.
  What do you mean, my upvotes won't last for all eternity? AND MY ANGRY DOWNVOTES?!?!
  WHAT IS THIS BLASPHEMY?

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.
  
  In their FAQ nothing is sent to the recepient until the letter is sent. This seems like such a great service until you realize email providers, and addresses aren't permanent.
  I've been with my husband 20+ years, I had 10+ email addresses when we met, and so did he. I love the idea, but wish there was a non-digital option for these things.
  Digitally, if we could register a non-first-level domain for 40-50 years we could set up our own family email severs, with scheduled messages.
- Man, fuck and unwillingly cuck spez. Seriously.
  I’m glad you’re still going bud.
  
  The though of touching him, or his trafficked wife is disgusting... Can't we find a way to end the mother fucker in the most public and painful way possible?

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!

Does the bot used the API to send the message? In that case not even a couple of months alerts are going to work.
- It's kind of sad to look back at that blind optimism that of course Reddit wasn't going to shit itself and I was definitely going to get that "!remindme in 10 years" DM and get a blast from the past.
  Now all those messages will never be sent
  
  Back when I was a teenager I had the blind optimism the future would be bright and we would keep all the positive trends we had in the early 2010s.
  
  All Reddit had to do was leave things alone and the community would keep chugging along.
- I think I remember seeing Reddit’s comment somewhere that remindme bot will keep working.

Awww, man.
Now I'm sad.
Thanks a lot, @orion2145. Not cool.
- I’m right there with you. Can’t unthink it.

In retrospect those were ridiculously optimistic
- At those lengths I always just thought it was more for the joke, rather than the actual reminder.
- 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?
  
  You realize reddit hasn't died and still has millions of users?
- I'm betting the Reddit posts will be there, but the people who were wrong usually delete there account within a year, in shame as they tend to be wrong about lots of other things. And yep I probably won't be there either.
- 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.
- @remindme@mstdn.social 5 hours
  
  @mausy5043 Here is your reminder!
  
  @mausy5043 Ok, I will remind you on Wednesday Jul 5, 2023 at 3:03 PM PDT.

I never thought about that before. I wonder how many were actually important.
- Zero.
  
  Maybe one and a half.

It was sort of ambitious for people to think they'd be on reddit with the same account in 20 years
- I don't think so, reddit was so dominant that had they simply not decided to anger all their power users, we'd all still be on there like nothing had changed. A good platform has staying power, I've been on Steam for 16 years and I have no plans of bailing on it because it's simply the best gaming platform I've ever used. It's not game lock-in or anything, most of my games I could buy elsewhere or pirate, I just like having the features and all these other ones popping up like GOG Galaxy still aren't overtaking it despite the good PR.
  
  Capitalism killed it. That's how things go. They are great for a while then get too big and have to keep growing for some reason. The pursuit of perpetual growth ruins everything
  
  Agreed. Have been on Steam for almost 19 years. Nothing has really degraded as far as the service goes, and Valve's approach to listening to community feedback is good. We've saw controversy, mainly Paid Mods and CS:GO gambling, both have been taken care of for the most part due to community pushback. I can't think of a controversy that has made me want to leave the service though. With Reddit, it was a slow decline to its death on July 1st.
  
  Yahoo answers held on for decades after it was relevant, I'm sure Reddit will be around in 15 years.
  Sadly, Remindbot will be reminding a ghost town populated only by other bots
  
  had they simply not decided to anger all their power users
  It was Huffman. It was inevitable.
- I mean, I made it 12...
  
  I suppose I still have an account from 2009 that I don’t ever use. I went through at least two dozen others that I deleted since then though.
- I was on for 14.
  
  But when was the RemindMe bot created?
- 17 years was pretty close to that...
- I'm still with my old yahoo account, because it is tied with my tumblr account, and sad to say my tumblr is much older than my first reddit account, which is older than the digg migration. I'd revive yahoo groups in a heartbeat if it is revived with the same feature set. There's a certain kind of group discussion it really does well for that forums don't really capture.
  
  I’d revive yahoo groups in a heartbeat if it is revived with the same feature set
  SAME, why did Yahoo shut down, there were so many incredible things to it (but I like forums, too)
  Edit: I'm dumb and misspoke, Yahoo itself didn't shut down but a lot of things in it did

Like tears in rain
- Those who spez twice as fast spez half as long.
  
  Time...to spez.

Do we have any remindme bot in lemmy?
- There's one on Mastodon
  @remindme@mstdn.social 1 day
  
  @lemonadebunny Ok, I will remind you on Wednesday Jul 5, 2023 at 2:43 PM PDT.
  
  Wonder how long until someone makes a lemmy instance for only bots, with some cool domain like @lemmy.bot
  Then we don't have to remember all of the domains, and we can get easy to remember bots like;
  remindme@lemmy.bot
  
  @lemonadebunny Here is your reminder!
- We will eventually, probably.
  
  dementia
- We will eventually, probably.
  
  !Remind me, eventually
  
  dementia

RIP, let's be honest though it was just for the bit.

Man this ruined my night

I think the bot was already down before the blackout. I remember trying to set a !remind me and nothing happened. Then I read somewhere that the bot was now offline.
- No, it's still online. I just checked, and I/RemindMeBot is still commenting.
  
  Will it still work after the API changes though? I'm assuming whomever runs that bot doesn't want to pay through the ass to continue posting.
  
  Maybe it was sub specific then…
- Comments starting with "!remind me" are automatically removed in some subreddits, maybe that was the issue.
- I got a reminderjust as the blackouts started

I don't think anyone reasonably expected it to work that long
- I actually did, there was no reason to suspect bots would stop working.
  
  I believed.
- You've got the best username on here!

!RemindMe 5 years
- Okay bro, I got ur back. I put it on the to-do list on my fridge for ya!
  
  Good bot
  
  This is the u/remindmebot we all need.
- OK, I'll remind you on 2028 July 5 10:49:32UTC!
  (I wrote a memo on a yellow post-it sticker, I hope I won't loose it by next week)

The only bot I'll actually miss is The-Paranoid-Android from the SCP page.
- Marv was a good boy
  
  Marv was the best bot ever.
- and Lewis Therin bot
  "NO! I AM MYSELF! I AM LEWS THERIN TELAMON! I AM MEEEEEeeeee!"

Would that bot even be functional long term with the API changes?
- Supposedly, yes... but it temporarily was broken, requiring a quick-and-dirty questionable fix that might break again.
  
  That was 2 months ago. At that time we still thought API prices will be reasonable
- Woosh

!RemindMe 5 years

some adbot or AI bot will try to sell it a porn subscription.

This may be true, but we can now see new remind me bots here:
https://lemmy.ca/post/1143350

I did not need to be feeling these kinds of emotions first thing in the morning.

Well, shit, there were 3 things I asked it to remind me, which I clearly don't remember anymore already.
- Thankfully, they'll remind you wh- oh wait.
- Never made it as a wise man
  I couldn't cut it as a poor man stealing
  Tired of living like a blind man
  I'm sick of sight without a sense of feeling
- Same boat
- Same boat

NOOOOOOO

@remindme@mstdn.social 15 years

That is sad, I did enjoy some follow ups, the drama was a good read even if it was someone’s creative writing practice. I truly appreciated seeing skills grow. I followed a few craft/hobby subs; sometimes someone would ask a very novice question and end up posting incredible work a few months later. Don’t get me wrong, I hate reddit- especially now, but there were some good, helpful communities
- I don't hate reddit, I just hate what they're doing to it...
  
  Reddit is a magic feather. Moving to the Fediverse has never made me so sure of anything

Yeah so this post made me follow the showerthoughts lemmy

Unrelated but someone needs to port Bobby B bot over here
- Over an open field! NEDDDDDDDDD!!! Betsy's titssss!!
- Over an open field! NEDDDDDDDDD!!! Betsy's titssss!!

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.

@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
- @remindme@mstdn.social

Oh ya haha good point. There's goes all my remind me posts. Oh well

Wow so many stories I won't get the resolution to...
- For me 90% were just "You just wait and see about this whole Bitcoin thing! You'll see!"
  Narrator: They didn't see.
- Those stories are most likely fake so nothing was lost.

I’ll never know if that safe got opened.

Good lord, trigger warning! I'm so glad Lemmy is here to fill the void, but just when I think I've healed you hit me with this dang

Man...

Ohhh no I totally forgot about that bot. 😭 Now I'm hella sad.

The ghost of reddit past

Unless someone makes some kind of migration tool perhaps...
- you would need to either work with the current maintainer of remindme bot or to scrap all remindme comment from reddit, easier with API access, so I doubt about this. But a fresh port of remindme bot here I have no doubt that it will come soon!
  
  Since this is connected to mastodon you can use the remindme bot from there. Its called @remindme@mstdn.social

@remindme@mstdn.social 1 year

That was the joke though, right? No one actually expected Reddit to last that long, did they?
- Lots of people actually did. Many of Reddits users were not around the Internet before Reddit (myself included). It was almost like the YouTube for forums, a giant platform too big to fail.

Aw, that’s probably the most upsetting thing about all this
- yeah, I had some ones set up like months out, it was always fun getting those random reminders. There's a similar bot on discord, at least