orion2145Now no one will ever see all those super long !remindme bot posts set for 5, 10 or 15 years on Reddit
Oh man, this bums me out.
🇸🇵🇪🇨🇺🇱🇦🇹🇪🇷Same :-(
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆Hello fellow blue name person.
I learned it from you a few days ago! Rather, I read your response to another inquiry. Thanks for not knowledge hogging!
ThtevenDon’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”.
Whiskey Picklesome adbot or AI bot will try to sell it a porn subscription.
You were a good bot, RemindMe. I want you to remember that.
That is sad, I did enjoy some follow ups, the drama was a good read even if it was someone’s creative writing practice. I truly appreciated seeing skills grow. I followed a few craft/hobby subs; sometimes someone would ask a very novice question and end up posting incredible work a few months later. Don’t get me wrong, I hate reddit- especially now, but there were some good, helpful communities
I don’t hate reddit, I just hate what they’re doing to it…
The D QuuuuuillReddit is a magic feather. Moving to the Fediverse has never made me so sure of anything
That was the joke though, right? No one actually expected Reddit to last that long, did they?
VictoriaLots of people actually did. Many of Reddits users were not around the Internet before Reddit (myself included). It was almost like the YouTube for forums, a giant platform too big to fail.
This hits harder than I would have expected.
Damn. Didn’t think of this. What will be missed and forgotten….
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!
TeaHandsI did not need to be feeling these kinds of emotions first thing in the morning.
I never thought about that before. I wonder how many were actually important.
I don’t think anyone reasonably expected it to work that long
You’ve got the best username on here!
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?
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 😢
The unpopular ones can be used since they don’t reach the API calls free limit.
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.
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.
VupperwarePersonally, 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 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 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.
KyleProbably 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.
zeppoIt 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.
queermunistYahoo 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
Even Digg is still around these days
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.
SmokeInFogNot 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?
This is easily the main concern when it comes to Steam. A strong leadership can largely mitigate the ill effects of capitalism, but once said leadership goes away, it becomes a profiteering free-for-all.
StanI was on for 14.
17 years was pretty close to that…
Do we have any remindme bot in lemmy?
Xylight (photon dev)We will eventually, probably.
!Remind me, eventually
driving_croonerDoes the bit 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
hydraBack 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.
ObiniceFor my family, the 2010s were already a big downward trend. Huge global financial crisis and it’s fallout felt to this day, good things going away or getting worse (just look at how Facebook, Twitter, etc became utter crap around 2012), the rapid acceleration of income and class inequality, just so, so much that was slowly going downhill got even worse :-(
It’s easy to forget that so much happened in the 2010s, even early on. It wasn’t long into that decade that Occupy Wallstreet reminded us that we can’t beat the rich, and that there’s no hope. It crashed and burned so hard, and nobody’s been able to stand up to corpos the same way since.
For me, hope was lost in the late 2000s. Everything else has just been slow nails in the coffin since then :-(
Experimental CyborgHonestly. Humans are so bad at seeing multi-year trends… myself included. Many essential things have been consistently going to shit over the past decade for sure. Climate change in the same vein, “It’s not that different” “there were always record weather events once in a while” but if you look at a graph of objective scientific data, it’s an exponential line of weather extreme after weather extreme with steadily decreasing intervals between events. But the neighbours insist that “We’ve had summers like this in the 70’s, you youngsters haven’t seen anything. Stop causing a panic!”
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.
LazaroFilmI 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.
@[email protected] 5 minutes
Remind MeComments starting with “!remind me” are automatically removed in some subreddits, maybe that was the issue.
psycrowIt’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.
GustavoM“Everything on the internet lasts forever” is a falsehood formed from a Web 2.0 mindset.
What do you mean, my upvotes won’t last for all eternity? AND MY ANGRY DOWNVOTES?!?!
WHAT IS THIS BLASPHEMY?
I think that sentiment is much older. I’d peg its origin to Usenet, but I’ve no sources