Is there a bot for creating reminders on Lemmy? Say for example I see a comment that I would like to be reminded of in 3 months, I could reply to the comment with “remindme 3 months” or “remindme February 2, 2025” and on Feb 2, I get a direct message in my inbox reminding of the comment with a link.

  • Death_Equity@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    Not everybody’s brain works like yours and some may find it helpful to be able to do reminders within lemmy.

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      15 days ago

      Habits can be built and rebuilt. I’ve known a disappointing amount of people who refuse to use a calendar for reminders out of pride and end up being all over the place in the end.

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        15 days ago

        Uh, I use a calendar for reminders and frankly that’s precisely why I don’t want to use one for Lemmy reminders. It’s clogged enough already with stuff that’s actually important.

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      15 days ago

      let’s say you’re on an android phone. you click share, if possible with the url of your home instance, pick calendar, choose a date and save. that seems much better than controlling a bot.

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      15 days ago

      It would be a great idea if added to an app, I just don’t think it belongs in the comment section. It will needlessly bloat the comments for a seriously small minority and be detrimental to the experience.

      And lets be honest, its mostly laziness or not knowing how easy it is to use a calendar. The amount of users that can use lemmy but cannot share or copy/paste into a calendar because their brain works different is clearly very low and probably non-existant.

      Ask it from the app devs, I’m sure one of them will see the use in it. No need to force it on us.