Oh man, this bums me out.
this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2023
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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".
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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/
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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.
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.
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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:
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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.
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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.
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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
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I never thought about that before. I wonder how many were actually important.
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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.
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Do we have any remindme bot in lemmy?
There's one on Mastodon
@[email protected] 1 day
@lemonadebunny Ok, I will remind you on Wednesday Jul 5, 2023 at 2:43 PM PDT.
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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;
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Man this ruined my night
RIP, let's be honest though it was just for the bit.
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.
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The only bot I'll actually miss is The-Paranoid-Android from the SCP page.
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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.
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!RemindMe 5 years
Okay bro, I got ur back. I put it on the to-do list on my fridge for ya!
Good bot
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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)
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