YSK: Mastodon bots work here too— there IS a remindme bot already!

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?

Yeah I didn't want that 😭 I was hoping people would read to the end

Common sense and decency would suggest doing them as child comments so that the whole thread of them can be easily collapsed.

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.

At least, you can add dm before the time so that the bot will respond to you privately.

@danc4498 Here is your reminder!

@danc4498 Ok, I will remind you on Tuesday Jul 4, 2023 at 4:56 PM PDT.

@LazaroFilm Here is your reminder!

@LazaroFilm Ok, I will remind you on Tuesday Jul 4, 2023 at 6:28 PM PDT.

@Jeom @lemonadebunny (dev here) we don't currently support setting reminders that last for years

@IverCoder Here is your reminder!

@IverCoder Ok, I will remind you on Tuesday Jul 4, 2023 at 8:20 PM PDT.

@x4740N Here is your reminder!

@x4740N Ok, I will remind you on Thursday Jul 6, 2023 at 3:30 AM PDT.

The thing about botsin.space is that it's open to anyone who wants to host a bot, so there really isn't any "centralized" listing besides what Mastodon offers by itself, and most bots generally have any instructions on their bios or pins.

Let's try it out @remindme@mstdn.social in 1 minute

EDIT: It works, I think you have to write the number out

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.

At least it seems on here so far bots have to be explicitly called for.

Yes! I found @Pollsforfun@mastodon.social for that

However, I don't think polls federate on Lemmy and haven't tested it yet so it might not work here

@Rootiest Ok, I will remind you on Tuesday Jul 4, 2023 at 9:02 PM PDT.

@Rootiest Here is your reminder!

@alldreadme Here is your reminder!

@alldreadme Ok, I will remind you on Wednesday Jul 5, 2023 at 1:25 PM PDT.

Did it work for you? I didn't get a DM.

@remindme@mstdn.social dm remind me after 1 minute

Piggybacking on your comment to lessen spam at top. @remindme@mstdn.social in 1 minute DM

@remindme@mastodon.social in 2 minutes

@kilgore_trout Ok, I will remind you on Thursday Jul 6, 2023 at 11:11 PM PDT.

Use me to send you reminders about toots! E.g., “@remindme 1 day”, “@remindme 1 week”, or “@remindme 12h”

If you’d like the reminders to be sent via dm (instead of publicly), add “dm” to the message. For example, “@remindme dm 1 day”

@KLISHDFSDF Here is your reminder!

I'll try it too: @remindme@mstdn.social dm 5 minutes