Why should it be a bot? It could be a feature built into Lemmy itself.
You could request it here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues
this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2025
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wow, never thought of this! neat!
@[email protected] 30 minutes. "How many comments say remind me?"
Thank you I was looking for exactly something like this!
Hey, if you did want to build this yourself, a handy feature the Reddit version has is that it replies to the comment confirming the reminder has been set, and includes a link to DM the bot prefilled with information to receive the same reminder. It saves dozens of people needing to make the same "remind me" comment.
that's actually useful, Thank you for sharing the idea!
Huh, @-ing makes a lot of sense. I was about to tell the tale that the !remindme syntax is incredibly wasteful, because the bot needs to read every comment to be able to detect that. But yeah, just making it a mention instead resolves that very elegantly.
Noo that bot is a big wart on reddit. Add something on the client side instead.
Idk if there's already a bot, but I will say that as much as I detest JavaScript, the library someone already made for Lemmy would absolutely trivialise a big chunk of this kind of task. You just set a handler on the username mention and a scheduler to go through the archive on a Cron to send out any reminders.
I'm not sure if there is a particular one written in Rust... But a Google search returns several open source remindme-bots for Lemmy. And I've seen one in some community. Plus Mastodon bots are supposed to work here, because of federation.