Now 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.

RemindMe bot is no longer functional following the API pricing change, and many Redditors are still unaware of this fact.

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!

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.

Like shadows burned on the sides of buildings in Hiroshima

It'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.

Oh my god... WHERE'S EPOXY HOTDOG GUY?!

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.

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. :(

Does the bot used the API to send the message? In that case not even a couple of months alerts are going to work.

Damn this is a quality shower thought...sad but profound.

Awww, man.

Now I'm sad.

Thanks a lot, @orion2145. Not cool.

In retrospect those were ridiculously optimistic

I never thought about that before. I wonder how many were actually important.

Like tears in rain

It was sort of ambitious for people to think they'd be on reddit with the same account in 20 years

Do we have any remindme bot in lemmy?

Man this ruined my night

I 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.

Would that bot even be functional long term with the API changes?

!RemindMe 5 years

The only bot I'll actually miss is The-Paranoid-Android from the SCP page.

I don't think anyone reasonably expected it to work that long

!RemindMe 5 years

RIP, let's be honest though it was just for the bit.

some adbot or AI bot will try to sell it a porn subscription.

This may be true, but we can now see new remind me bots here:

https://lemmy.ca/post/1143350

I did not need to be feeling these kinds of emotions first thing in the morning.

Well, shit, there were 3 things I asked it to remind me, which I clearly don't remember anymore already.

Yeah so this post made me follow the showerthoughts lemmy

NOOOOOOO

Poor bot will be constantly woken up only to remember that there is no one to remind. Only the void.

Unrelated but someone needs to port Bobby B bot over here

@remindme@mstdn.social 30 years

@remindme@mstdn.social 15 years

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