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!
Will that bot work if I use lemmy.ml?
That’s too bad. Karma and bots are two things I was happy to get away from.
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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
@remindme@mstdn.social dm in 5 minutes
@remindme@mstdn.social in 5 minutes
Cool! But does the bot have to know of this community to see mentions? How does fediverse tagging work?
Adding a user’s @user@domain.com in a comment is - to really simplify it - just like sending them an email. The bot get a message that you posted something, it process the message and “emails” you back at that time.
Sweet - makes sense. Just tested it on an obscure community on a small instance. Worked!
@remindme@mstdn.social 1 minute
How to find the available bots and their instructions on the botsin.space?
@remindme@mstdn.social dm 2 minutes
@remindme@mstdn.social dm in 5 minutes
@remindme@mstdn.social in 2 days
Uh, actually, how do you do the tagging? It looks like only one user here has managed it, for everyone else, the first ‘@’ is being ignored.
Let’s try it out @remindme@mstdn.social in 1 minute
EDIT: It works, I think you have to write the number out
@remindme@mstdn.social dm 1 minute
@remindme@mstdn.social dm in 5 minutes
