Why YSK: I’ve seen several commenters asking if there were specific bots such as RemindMe

However, there are so many bots already on mastodon that will federate with us! Check out botsin.space, a masto-instance specifically made for hosting bots

Just tag @remindme@mstdn.social and say the time after (I recommend you not do it on this post unless you have an actual reason though as it could spam their servers)

  • Orvanis@lemm.eeEnglish
    61·
    1 year ago

    This is insanely cool… I don’t know why it never occurred to me that bots on other platforms could work here due to federation, but it makes so much sense. Thanks for sharing!

    • charles@lemmy.caEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      I also love the idea that we can have “bot instances” (as mentioned by OP) so an instance can decide if they want most bots or not. Not sure if communities themselves can exercise that kind of control but that would be amazing as well.

      Add that to the rapidly growing lists of things that are improved on a decentralized platform!

  • T156@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    1 year ago

    Now all we need is a way to use the bots without clogging the comment section with bot commands.

    • CeruleanRuin@lemmy.oneEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Common sense and decency would suggest doing them as child comments so that the whole thread of them can be easily collapsed.

      Only a jackass would do a bot command as a top comment.

    • ElTacoEsMiPastor@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Exactly! Now I’m sad/disappointed the threads will be drowned with commands.

      Yes, it’s neat to have these tools but it doesn’t actually provide anything to the discussion at hand.

  • WarmSoda@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    That’s too bad. Karma and bots are two things I was happy to get away from.

  • bdonvr@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    Cool! But does the bot have to know of this community to see mentions? How does fediverse tagging work?

    • ᗪᗩᗰᑎ@lemmy.mlEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      Adding a user’s @user@domain.com in a comment is - to really simplify it - just like sending them an email. The bot get a message that you posted something, it process the message and “emails” you back at that time.

      • bdonvr@thelemmy.clubEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Sweet - makes sense. Just tested it on an obscure community on a small instance. Worked!