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
maybe remindme bot should pass through all API calls to Apollo and solve this whole moronic escape room detonation
You already escaped by being here. Why try to find a workaround to go back?
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.
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.
I did the same, I hope they got them.
Me too. Should have thought about that before I nuked my history…
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Damn, I wonder if it’s the same guy. The post I originally saw him on had a bunch of people hopping on to the remindme thing, but its impossible to know how many followed through.
Like shadows burned on the sides of buildings in Hiroshima
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)
Oh wow, I see what you mean. Love Bradbury. I got the Illustrated Man with that short in it.
No. I am willing to ignore a lot of idiotic crap on the internet. But no, you cannot compare literal lives lost to a stupid Reddit bot.
It’s a joke, mate.
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.
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”
The “I before E” rule is weird.
Yeah… A lot of exceptions to that rule, mainly because of how the English language developed.
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 after E, except after C; when it sounds like “ee”.
I wish there were more. I just found out at work that “deprecated” and “depreciated” are different words, it was so embarrassing.
In your defense they have pretty similar meanings.
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.
That one was good. I also liked the one that counted how many times someone has said the n word, but I do not think the n word is allowed here (which is better).
Here on which instance? That’s the nice part about Lemmy, those rules are set per instance.
Probably one of the few useful bots ever added to Reddit.
My favorite bot was AutoMod. The 3rd party app I used allowed me to block that bot, which was always the top post in every single thread.
wait so you liked it because you could block it? I fucking hated automod BECAUSE i always had to block it.
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
People whose first language isn’t English (and especially people who apologize for their English) almost invariably type perfectly, lol
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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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.
In their FAQ nothing is sent to the recepient until the letter is sent. This seems like such a great service until you realize email providers, and addresses aren’t permanent.
I’ve been with my husband 20+ years, I had 10+ email addresses when we met, and so did he. I love the idea, but wish there was a non-digital option for these things.
Digitally, if we could register a non-first-level domain for 40-50 years we could set up our own family email severs, with scheduled messages.
Man, fuck and unwillingly cuck spez. Seriously.
I’m glad you’re still going bud.
The though of touching him, or his trafficked wife is disgusting… Can’t we find a way to end the mother fucker in the most public and painful way possible?
Damn this is a quality shower thought…sad but profound.
LMFAO, I didn’t even see what community this was in. I thought I was in one of the many reddit, migration, or tech subs. This was an amazing shower thought!
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.
I’m gonna miss r/epoxyhotdog lol
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.
Awww, man.
Now I’m sad.
Thanks a lot, @orion2145. Not cool.
I’m right there with you. Can’t unthink it.
I never thought about that before. I wonder how many were actually important.
Zero.
Maybe one and a half.
Like tears in rain
Those who spez twice as fast spez half as long.
Time…to spez.
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.
Capitalism killed it. That’s how things go. They are great for a while then get too big and have to keep growing for some reason. The pursuit of perpetual growth ruins everything
aka the great enshittification of '23
This is exactly it, now that the economy is slowing down, reddit is just one of many tech startups which whose investors now require actual returns instead of just promises of endless growth.
Thats how we gonna call this era arent we?
Gonna be honest, I first heard “enshittification” when Reddit announced the API pricing, and now I hear it everywhere for everything, and I hate it.
It’s like when a child learns a new word and wont stop using it.
Yahoo answers held on for decades after it was relevant, I’m sure Reddit will be around in 15 years.
Sadly, Remindbot will be reminding a ghost town populated only by other bots
There won’t be any bots if they have to pay eyewatering amounts for API access.
It’ll be a ghost town, plus u/spez.
Agreed. Have been on Steam for almost 19 years. Nothing has really degraded as far as the service goes, and Valve’s approach to listening to community feedback is good. We’ve saw controversy, mainly Paid Mods and CS:GO gambling, both have been taken care of for the most part due to community pushback. I can’t think of a controversy that has made me want to leave the service though. With Reddit, it was a slow decline to its death on July 1st.
Not gonna lie, it was the will Reddit fiasco that has me concerned about my game library when Gabe goes
When I buy a game I now always look first if there’s a DRM-free version on GOG
I’m imaginging you emulating a bunch of retro win10 games on your future-pc 30 years from now. Smart way of doing it though: why pay of the DRM version when you can actually own the game?
had they simply not decided to anger all their power users
It was Huffman. It was inevitable.
I mean, I made it 12…
I suppose I still have an account from 2009 that I don’t ever use. I went through at least two dozen others that I deleted since then though.
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
Back when I was a teenager I had the blind optimism the future would be bright and we would keep all the positive trends we had in the early 2010s.
All Reddit had to do was leave things alone and the community would keep chugging along.
I think I remember seeing Reddit’s comment somewhere that remindme bot will keep working.
