YSK: Mastodon bots work here too— there IS a remindme bot already! - eviltoast

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)

  • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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    1 year ago

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

    • ᗪᗩᗰᑎ@lemmy.ml
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      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.

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        1 year ago

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