• GoosLife@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 years 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
      2·
      2 years 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.

    • PloKoon@lemmy.world
      0·
      2 years 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·
        2 years 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
            0·
            2 years 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
              0·
              2 years 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
                2·
                2 years 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.

  • psycrow@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 years 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
      2·
      2 years 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
        1·
        2 years 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
          1·
          2 years 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

  • Fester@lemm.ee
    3·
    2 years ago

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

      • signofzeta@lemmygrad.ml
        1·
        2 years ago

        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.

  • 🦥󠀠󠀠󠀠󠀠󠀠󠀠@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 years 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
      1·
      2 years 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.

      • Laticauda@lemmy.ca
        2·
        2 years 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.

      • Thetimefarm@lemm.ee
        0·
        2 years 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”

      • lugal@lemmy.one
        0·
        2 years 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

    • BlushedPotatoPlayers@terefere.euEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      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)