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 😢
I looked it up now, and it does sound like Reddit made an exception for the reminder bot according to the bot’s dev: https://www.reddit.com/r/RemindMeBot/comments/13yo8ay/will_the_reddit_api_change_kill_remindmebot/
Which means it couldn’t have been made now
This whole thing is really fucking stupid
Solid work, and solid username. I’m feeling better about the fediverse every day.
“what’re you gonna do, arrest me??” -RemindMeBot, maybe
!remindme 1 week Arrest RemindMeBot
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
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 after E, except after C; when it sounds like “ee”.
…or when sounded like “ay” as in “neighbor” or “weigh”.
Actually, let me double check that with my foreign buddies Keith and Heidi, they’ve got eight children who are all cops and busted a major counterfeit heist the other day. Weird, right?
Man, English blows.
Gimme Newspeak already. The world isn’t cyberpunk enough yet.
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
fck you descriptivist
You mean prescriptivist? 😅
(beep boom I’m a human)
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.
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.
I kind’ve feel the same way.
I seen alot of people who type the same way. Their so dumb.
I see what you did they’re
@remindme@lemmy.icyserver.eu 5 years “Lets see if this works”
Okay I’ll remind you on 2028-7-15 10:37:32 UTC
Get all of the remindme bots going haha
@RemindMe@programming.dev remind me in 5 years
Gotcha! I’ll remind you at Monday, February 21, 2028, 6:44:37 PM UTC.
Have to learn some rust and thought it couldn’t hurt to develop a Remind Me bot ^^
@RemindMe@lemmy.ml remind me in 5 years
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.
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.
Man, fuck and unwillingly cuck spez. Seriously.
I’m glad you’re still going bud.
As much as I’ll miss Remindme!Bot, I’m going to miss all those LotR-Bots a lot more. 🥺
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?
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.
Well so has it decayed or not?
Oh I finally got a notification of this reply 13 days later :) I haven’t been following it much but as far as I know it hasn’t visibly decayed.
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.
Like shadows burned on the sides of buildings in Hiroshima
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.
Yes exactly. Wait. What?
I think they are talking about this but I don’t exactly see how this is related to the topic
There’s a short story by Ray Bradbury about an automated house that survives a nuclear blast. The shadows of the children throwing a ball are on the house outside, and inside the robots continue to service a family that’s no longer there. That’s what it reminds me of.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Will_Come_Soft_Rains_(short_story)
In retrospect those were ridiculously optimistic
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 won’t be around to be told ‘i told you so’. They will be speaking into the wind.
Poor bot will be constantly woken up only to remember that there is no one to remind. Only the void.
