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.

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 😢
- "what're you gonna do, arrest me??" -RemindMeBot, maybe
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.

!RemindMe to think of you. Good bot.

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.

@remindme@mstdn.social 30 years

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

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.

I think that warning is more about the lack of control you have over your own data. You post a pic or political view online and it will be duplicated before you know it and you won’t be able to delete it on your own terms.
- Yep, it's just Murphy's Law of data: everything you regret posting will be in public archives forever, everything you want to preserve will have gotten deleted the next time you try to find it.

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"
- 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.
- 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
- I wish there were more. I just found out at work that "deprecated" and "depreciated" are different words, it was so embarrassing.
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.

In retrospect those were ridiculously optimistic

I mean, most of them were meant to be silly, but reddit was also around a shockingly long time for an internet community. Consider that Myspace was only around for three years before it started losing status. Reddit, by comparison, was a major site for a decade and is only now starting to drop. And the remindme bot has been around for most of that time. A bunch of those 'remind me in a few years' posts were actually tripped.
- You realize reddit hasn't died and still has millions of users?
Question for you, when I try to go there it makes me log in, but I don't have an account for that instance. Do I have to create a new account for each instance?
- You can make separate accounts on each instance, or you can access content on other instances from your instance. Unfortunately when you click on a URL someone shares that takes you out of your instance, but you can copy/paste that URL into your instance's search box to access that post from your instance.

@remindme@lemmy.icyserver.eu 5 years "Lets see if this works"

Okay I'll remind you on 2028-7-15 10:37:32 UTC
Get all of the remindme bots going haha
@RemindMe@programming.dev remind me in 5 years
- @RemindMe@lemmy.ml remind me in 5 years
- Gotcha! I'll remind you at Monday, February 21, 2028, 6:44:37 PM UTC.
- Have to learn some rust and thought it couldn't hurt to develop a Remind Me bot ^^

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?
- 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.
- 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.

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.
Man, fuck and unwillingly cuck spez. Seriously.
I’m glad you’re still going bud.

As much as I'll miss Remindme!Bot, I'm going to miss all those LotR-Bots a lot more. 🥺

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

Humanity will die its last death when the bots send their last reminder.
- Well, I think there was one guy who wanted to be reminded about the heat death of the universe. Hopefully he set a reminder somewhere else, too.

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
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.
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.

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.

I won't be around to be told 'i told you so'. They will be speaking into the wind.

!RemindMe 5 years

OK, I'll remind you on 2028 July 5 10:49:32UTC!
(I wrote a memo on a yellow post-it sticker, I hope I won't loose it by next week)

Do we have any remindme bot in lemmy?

We will eventually, probably.
There's one on Mastodon
@remindme@mstdn.social 1 day
- Wonder how long until someone makes a lemmy instance for only bots, with some cool domain like @lemmy.bot
  Then we don't have to remember all of the domains, and we can get easy to remember bots like;
  remindme@lemmy.bot
- @lemonadebunny Ok, I will remind you on Wednesday Jul 5, 2023 at 2:43 PM PDT.
- @lemonadebunny Here is your reminder!

The ghost of reddit past

Like tears in rain

Oh ya haha good point. There's goes all my remind me posts. Oh well

Man this ruined my night

!RemindMe 5 years

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

@RemindMe@programming.dev remind me in 2 days and 3 seconds

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

You've got the best username on here!

Aw, that’s probably the most upsetting thing about all this

yeah, I had some ones set up like months out, it was always fun getting those random reminders. There's a similar bot on discord, at least

Ha! I beat the system. I never used remindme bot

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

Supposedly, yes... but it temporarily was broken, requiring a quick-and-dirty questionable fix that might break again.
- That was 2 months ago. At that time we still thought API prices will be reasonable

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

Zero.

Awww, man.

Now I'm sad.

Thanks a lot, @orion2145. Not cool.

I’m right there with you. Can’t unthink it.

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

Same boat

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.
- 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
- 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
- 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.