This is insanely cool... I don't know why it never occurred to me that bots on other platforms could work here due to federation, but it makes so much sense. Thanks for sharing!
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I also love the idea that we can have "bot instances" (as mentioned by OP) so an instance can decide if they want most bots or not. Not sure if communities themselves can exercise that kind of control but that would be amazing as well.
Add that to the rapidly growing lists of things that are improved on a decentralized platform!
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Now all we need is a way to use the bots without clogging the comment section with bot commands.
Yeah I didn't want that 😭 I was hoping people would read to the end
Common sense and decency would suggest doing them as child comments so that the whole thread of them can be easily collapsed.
I can see that you're new to the Internet. Welcome!
I'm just yelling into the void. It's therapeutic.
Exactly! Now I'm sad/disappointed the threads will be drowned with commands.
Yes, it's neat to have these tools but it doesn't actually provide anything to the discussion at hand.
At least, you can add dm before the time so that the bot will respond to you privately.
@[email protected] in 5 minutes
@[email protected] in 3 years
@Jeom @lemonadebunny (dev here) we don't currently support setting reminders that last for years
Good dev.
A bit pessimistic though.
How to find the available bots and their instructions on the botsin.space?
The thing about botsin.space is that it's open to anyone who wants to host a bot, so there really isn't any "centralized" listing besides what Mastodon offers by itself, and most bots generally have any instructions on their bios or pins.
Yep! botsin.space is just a server dedicated to it, while ANY server can have a bot
The closest I found to a "directory" was the local page of the instance but that just shows posts made by the bots
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Uh, actually, how do you do the tagging? It looks like only one user here has managed it, for everyone else, the first '@' is being ignored.
Let's try it out @[email protected] in 1 minute
EDIT: It works, I think you have to write the number out
@[email protected] 1 minute
Cool! But does the bot have to know of this community to see mentions? How does fediverse tagging work?
Adding a user's @[email protected] 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.
Sweet - makes sense. Just tested it on an obscure community on a small instance. Worked!
That's too bad. Karma and bots are two things I was happy to get away from.
At least it seems on here so far bots have to be explicitly called for.
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