Oh man, this bums me out.
this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2023
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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.
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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".
Same :-(
Hello fellow blue name person.
You were a good bot, RemindMe. I want you to remember that.
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"
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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.
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
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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.
Man, fuck and unwillingly cuck spez. Seriously.
I’m glad you’re still going bud.
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.
In retrospect those were ridiculously optimistic
Does the bot used the API to send the message? In that case not even a couple of months alerts are going to work.
I think I remember seeing Reddit’s comment somewhere that remindme bot will keep working.
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
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
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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:
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.
Do we have any remindme bot in lemmy?
We will eventually, probably.
There's one on Mastodon
@remindme@mstdn.social 1 day
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;
@lemonadebunny Ok, I will remind you on Wednesday Jul 5, 2023 at 2:43 PM PDT.
It works! Let's see if it'll still be working 5 years from now.
@remindme@mstdn.social 5 years
Gotta @lemmybot
I'm actually kinda shocked it worked. I mean, I know you can read some Lemmy instances from Mastodon, but I'm still shocked it worked.
I don't think anyone reasonably expected it to work that long
You've got the best username on here!
Ha! I beat the system. I never used remindme bot
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