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    You were a good bot, RemindMe. I want you to remember that.

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    This is the best showerthought I’ve seen in ages.

    I think I’m going to like it here!

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    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. :(

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      Man, fuck and unwillingly cuck spez. Seriously.

      I’m glad you’re still going bud.

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    I won’t be around to be told ‘i told you so’. They will be speaking into the wind.

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    Does the bot used the API to send the message? In that case not even a couple of months alerts are going to work.

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      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

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    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.

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      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.

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        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.

  • 🦥󠀠󠀠󠀠󠀠󠀠󠀠
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    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.

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      My favorite was the would of/would’ve bot.

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        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.

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          I kind’ve feel the same way.

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            I seen alot of people who type the same way. Their so dumb.

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      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.

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        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”

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          I after E, except after C; when it sounds like “ee”.

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            or when sounded like “ay” as in “neighbor” or “weigh”.

            Actually, let me double check that with my foreign buddies Keith and Heidi, they’ve got eight children who are all cops and busted a major counterfeit heist the other day. Weird, right?

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                Gimme Newspeak already. The world isn’t cyberpunk enough yet.

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        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

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          fck you descriptivist

          You mean prescriptivist? 😅

          (beep boom I’m a human)

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    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.

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    Oh my god WHERE’S EPOXY HOTDOG GUY?!

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      uhhh context pls?

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        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.

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        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.