If there isn’t yet, what’re the challenges to overcome in making one?

Not that I can code, just hoping for at least a layman’s understanding.

      • @[email protected]
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        62 hours ago

        This is cool, you can even request the reminder to be sent to your DM! (Add “dm” between remindbots name-pinging and time)

        • @[email protected]
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          42 hours ago

          Yes. It’s explained in the bots’ bio

          Use me to send you reminders about toots! E.g., “@remindme 1 day”, “@remindme 1 week”, or “@remindme 12h”

          You can also use ISO-8601 date times! E.g., “@remindme 2025-03-15”, “@remindme 2025-04-20T12:53-02:00”

          If you’d like the reminders to be sent via dm (instead of publicly), add “dm” or “DM” to the message. For example, “@remindme dm 1 day”

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      32 hours ago

      Can you explain this to me more. It seems mastodon account can be used to post on Lemmy, but is the opposite possible? Can I use Lemmy account on mastodon?

      • aasatru
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        Lemmy does not normally display microblog content from Mastodon. You cannot follow users and see their posts listed on their profile or elsewhere, and as a result you cannot see or comment on their posts either.

        Mastodon users can, however, tag a community on Lemmy the same way they can tag a user. If they do so, their post will appear as a thread in the tagged Lemmy community, and Lemmy users will be able to respond to them.

        Mastodon users can basically pop up in the comment section any time, should they stumble over it for some reason or another. This could happen in many different ways: They could follow a hashtag, someone could share (boost) content into their feed, they could be mentioned, or they could read the Lemmy community and manually open the thread in Mastodon to reply.

  • PlzGivHugs
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    124 hours ago

    I think its partly because the Federation process takes time (which can throw off any more precise notifications between instances) but much more significantly because many of the most active Lemmy users really hate bots.

    • @Brkdncr
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      114 hours ago

      Most bots are annoying but the remindme bot seems useful.

    • @[email protected]
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      84 hours ago

      Yes, but there are several utility bots that are actually pretty useful.

      Video download, Remind me, acronym bot. What lemmy clients could do - collapse their messages by default and highlight the bot name.

      • @BlindFrogOP
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        Auto-collapse bots is a good setting. Each bot’s function is in their name anyway

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    Iirc there is one, hosted on Mastodon. But because of federation, you pretty much can call it here.

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    I think that’s a functionality that would better be integrated into the client’s. Idk if there are any out there already that can do it though. As someone who didn’t use the bot on reddit I felt it was kind of annoying on reddit to always have two or more of the top comments be completely unrelated to the subject. It felt like spam

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    14 hours ago

    I’ve only seen post bots, not comment bots.

    I would just put reminders in my calendar app otherwise.