There is an unofficial reminder bot on the Fediverse. It can remind you minutes, hours, days, weeks, months or years later. To use it, just mention the bot in a post or reply and include the period you want to be reminded after. For example:
@ remindme @ mstdn.social 1 week
To be reminded in a DM, include the word "dm" in small letters:
@ remindme @ mstdn.social dm 1 week
(Remove spaces in the address to make it work, I've only included spaces to avoid setting off the bot!)
p.s. UPDATE: Okay, sorry about the previous reply here, I was totally wrong so have removed what was written before.
It seems that the bot only understands a request for a DM reminder if the phrase "dm" is in small letters.
When it was in capitals "DM" it ignored it and sent a public reminder.
(I previously wrote that you had to send the DM request by DM for it to work, but this was incorrect.)
Have updated the original post to reflect this.
> If you DM it but forget to include "dm", it reminds you in public.
How intuitive! What could possibly go wrong? Still, a uaseful service as long as you know that trick.
I was wrong! Apparently the phrase "dm" has to be in lower case, it ignores it if it's upper case.
Doesn't matter if request is sent by dm or not.
Oh I see.
Hmm.
My first reaction is that my thoughts about untuitiveness and possibilities of things going wrong are not fully addressed by this new information ... but perhaps if I think about it long and hard enough I'll realize it *is* intuitive to use the lower-case version of an acronym that everybody else uses capital letters for. Still, thanks for the info.
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