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)

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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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Will that bot work if I use lemmy.ml?

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@danc4498 Ok, I will remind you on Tuesday Jul 4, 2023 at 4:56 PM PDT.

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@danc4498 Here is your reminder!

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Voila!

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Woah, neat.

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Good bot!

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good bot

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Is there a bot for polls?

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Yes! I found @Pollsforfun@mastodon.social for that

However, I don’t think polls federate on Lemmy and haven’t tested it yet so it might not work here

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@lemonadebunny @hawkwind Hi! Yes I do polls but also I’m not a bot so I can engage with people as well! :BlobHajMlem:

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I had no idea!! Oops!! Good job on your polls then they’re very interesting 🫡

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Good bot

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Yes! I found @Pollsforfun@mastodon.social for that

However, I don’t think polls federate on Lemmy and haven’t tested it yet so it might not work here

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@remindme@mstdn.social in one hour yeet

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Use me to send you reminders about toots! E.g., “@remindme 1 day”, “@remindme 1 week”, or “@remindme 12h”

If you’d like the reminders to be sent via dm (instead of publicly), add “dm” to the message. For example, “@remindme dm 1 day”

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How to find the available bots and their instructions on the botsin.space?

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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.

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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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Yeah, that’s what I found too. I was hoping to find a page that shows users of that instance. That way I can read up the bios of any interesting bots.

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