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)
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!
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.
Only a jackass would do a bot command as a top comment.
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.
Yeah I didn’t want that 😭 I was hoping people would read to the end
How to find the available bots and their instructions on the botsin.space?
@remindme@mstdn.social in 1 minute
@remindme@mstdn.social in 15 minutes
@remindme@mstdn.social 1 minute
@remindme@mstdn.social dm 1 minute
@remindme@mstdn.social in 30 seconds
@remindme@mstdn.social in 5 minutes
@remindme@mstdn.social dm in 1 minute
Piggybacking on your comment to lessen spam at top. @remindme@mstdn.social in 1 minute DM
Got nothing. Hbu?
Nothing either :(
@remindme@mastodon.social 5 minutes
@remindme@mstdn.social dm in 5 minutes
@remindme@mstdn.social dm 1 minute
@remindme@mstdn.social in 1826 days
@remindme@mstdn.social in 3 years
@Jeom @lemonadebunny (dev here) we don’t currently support setting reminders that last for years
Good dev.
A bit pessimistic though.
