• GoosLife@lemmy.world
    17·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 year ago

      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.

        • Gabu@lemmy.world
          4·
          1 year ago

          Most of those millions of users are largely irrelevant, as they don’t create content nor moderate. It’s akin to how Facebook can say they have millions of users, but nobody is actually using it anymore.

        • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 year ago

          Of course, but cracks are starting to show. My point was that this is an absurdly long time for something like reddit to be around at all, so the remindmebot comments that were set for years out weren’t as out there as the guy above me seemed to think. Hell, reddit share holders seem to be upset with what’s going on, so there are decent odds they’ll revert the changes and we’ll be back there in a year.

          • sgtlighttree@lemmy.world
            2·
            1 year ago

            Hell, reddit share holders seem to be upset with what’s going on

            Not that I don’t believe this, seems plausible to me⎯but would you happen to have a source for that.

            so there are decent odds they’ll revert the changes and we’ll be back there in a year.

            Hate to say this but I’m still clinging on to Reddit for some of the niche subs, but hopefully they’ll spring up here.

    • PloKoon@lemmy.world
      0·
      1 year ago

      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?

      • Zagorath@aussie.zone
        1·
        1 year ago

        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.

          • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Great question. An instance is just the name of the site through which you’re accessing the Lemmyverse. So you’re on the lemmy.world instance, while I’m on aussie.zone.

            You can think of Lemmy a little like email. You could be on Gmail while I’m on Outlook, but both of us can communicate with each other just fine, even though our email providers are completely different.

            • wzzy@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              Thanks for that explanation. That was my first post and this place is confusing and full of random exclamation marks lol.

              So are instances automatically assigned based on region? Or did I choose this instance? Can I switch, or would I notice a difference?

              • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
                3·
                1 year ago

                It’s just like with email, you choose which provider you go with. You must have gone to lemmy.world when you first came to Lemmy, so that’s your current provider.

                Right now, you can easily just go and sign up with another instance if you like. There are a heap of them, and if you google you can find out more about different ones. Some are general, like Lemmy.world, some have a geographical focus, like aussie.zone. Others are based more on shared interests, like ttrpg.network.

                On Lemmy, the equivalent of Reddit’s “subreddits” are called “communities”. And each instance has its own communities. Right now we’re commenting on !showerthoughts@lemmy.world, which you might also see referred to as /c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world. Those both mean the same thing. But there’s also a !showerthoughts@sh.itjust.works, and those two are completely separate communities with their own mods and their own rules. And even though your account is on lemmy.world, you could go into that other community and post or comment.

                Each instance has its own admins as well, and those admins have powers similar to that of admins on Reddit. They can ban users, remove communities on their own instance, etc. Most often the thing you’ll see talked about in terms of admin powers is “defederation”. That’s where the admins of one instance prevent users from another instance from interacting with them. Different admins might have different policies for why they would or would not defederate another instance, and you may want to ensure the instance you use has a defederation policy that you’re comfortable with—and one where your own instance hasn’t been defederated by other instances that you want to interact with.

                Right now, to move to another instance you just have to create a new account. Your old comments and posts etc. will be left behind. But there has been some talk about being able to migrate your account from one instance to another, and it’s theoretically possible. Mastodon is a fediverse equivalent to Twitter (in the same way that Lemmy is a fediverse Reddit) and I believe account migration is possible on Mastodon. For the most part though, no, you won’t really notice the difference between different instances.

  • 🦥󠀠󠀠󠀠󠀠󠀠󠀠@lemmy.world
    8·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • Vupperware@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • Thetimefarm@lemm.ee
        3·
        1 year ago

        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”

      • explodicle@local106.com
        2·
        1 year ago

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

      • Laticauda@lemmy.ca
        2·
        1 year ago

        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.

      • lugal@lemmy.one
        2·
        1 year ago

        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

      • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        1·
        1 year ago

        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.

  • psycrow@lemmy.world
    7·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • Standroid@programming.dev
      8·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • Eufalconimorph@discuss.tchncs.de
        4·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 year ago

          I think if we’re being honest it’s just information theory right? You but any sort of information out there (digital or not) and that info has ripple effects and propagates

      • psycrow@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        I mentally associate the concept the most with the late 2000’s when Encyclopedia Dramatica (a troll wiki dedicated to making fun of people) was at peak popularity and could ruin peoples lives if an article was made on a person there. All you had to do was type in a persons name on google, and chances are their ED article was one of the first results. But then not even 2 years into the next decade, ED imploded because the site admins wanted the place to be more sterile and profitable, and they were tired of being threatened by lawsuits.

        You could argue that Encyclopedia Dramatica lives on in spirit as Kiwifarms, but at this point Kiwifarms struggles to even remain online 24/7 because they managed to piss off the wrong people.

        Nothing is eternal on the internet. The only way to save information is to actively back it up and maintain it.

      • TANSTAAFL@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        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.

      • 👽🍻👽@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        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.

  • Jordan Lund@lemmy.one
    5·
    1 year ago

    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. :(

    • kambusha@feddit.ch
      5·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • 9point6@lemmy.world
      61·
      1 year ago

      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

      • hydra@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        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.

    • IAmMohit@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 year ago

      I think I remember seeing Reddit’s comment somewhere that remindme bot will keep working.