Hey everyone! Figured I would do a post about this bot here to get the word out that it exists. I recently brought back online and updated my remindme bot to 1.4 to make it comply with the lemmy.world bot guidelines.

This bot works across the fediverse but is primarily aimed at Pangora, Lemmy, and Kbin communities.

It functions on an allowlist in terms of what communities it participates in so if you want your community to be able to use it put a request by creating an issue in in the repository and itll get added

This bot aims to give people an easy way to remind themselves about an event on the fediverse. For example if theres something releasing in a couple months people can set a reminder using @RemindMe@programming.dev 2 months and they will get a reply to that message 2 months from then reminding them about it so they can check it out. (reminders are handled by replies so that it functions in kbin communities, and so that users from platforms such as mastodon can also use it in the communities)

Bot is fully open source so feel free to make pull requests with new features if you want or customize it to adapt it for your community if you want to self host.

Hope you enjoy it :) (note bot does not work here since this community isnt in the allowlist currently but theres a crossposted post in programming.dev that it works in if you want to test it out)

Repository: https://github.com/PangoraWeb/remindme-bot
Matrix Space for Pangora: https://matrix.to/#/#pangora:matrix.org

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[–] soupspoon@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Yay, thank you! I was sad to leave behind my reminders for the epoxy hot dog and that chunk of ham on a nail, but it's nice to see this here

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Beautiful

[–] pe1uca@lemmy.pe1uca.dev 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remember there was an update to the [redacted]'s one to avoid spam, I don't know how it worked but it was in the lines of after some "here's your reminder" comments it stopped itslef from commenting and only sent PMs to the people commenting.
Just mentioning it in case it's also a desired improvement for this one.

[–] Ategon@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

PMs would be ideal but it doesnt work across platforms. I can try to put in a check to see if someones on lemmy and switch to messaging if so but would be a bit since I have a lot of other things to finish up in my backlog of tasks for things like pangora (someone else can feel free to make a pull request though)

[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@RemindMe@programming.dev 10 minutes

Remind me to say thank you to the devs.

[–] Ategon@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Oh weird, it shouldnt be functioning in this community since it hasnt been added to the allowlist

For anyone else who wants to test it out please use the other version of the post and going to fix this bug, deleting the messages in here it makes

Update: Bug has been fixed

[–] sfgifz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there an easier way to summon the bot than such a long handle?

[–] Ategon@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

no way other than mentioning it. Used to use keywords to trigger it but that got removed to comply with bot guidelines (and since it only really detected the messages correctly half the time due to how lemmy provides the comments to it). If you type in part of it it should give you an option to autofill if youre using lemmy-ui

[–] sfgifz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Using Sync for Lemmy, it doesn't have autocomplete for this. Full it is then.