I won't be around to be told 'i told you so'. They will be speaking into the wind.
this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2023
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It's about time that people understood that "Everything on the internet lasts forever" is a falsehood formed from a Web 2.0 mindset. Now those big Web 2.0 sites everyone thought would dominate the internet forever are dying, and the only thing saving what was on those websites (the internet archive) is being constantly sued by greedy publishers.
I think that warning is more about the lack of control you have over your own data. You post a pic or political view online and it will be duplicated before you know it and you won’t be able to delete it on your own terms.
Yep, it's just Murphy's Law of data: everything you regret posting will be in public archives forever, everything you want to preserve will have gotten deleted the next time you try to find it.
Does the bot used the API to send the message? In that case not even a couple of months alerts are going to work.
It's kind of sad to look back at that blind optimism that of course Reddit wasn't going to shit itself and I was definitely going to get that "!remindme in 10 years" DM and get a blast from the past.
Now all those messages will never be sent
Do we have any remindme bot in lemmy?
There's one on Mastodon
@[email protected] 1 day
@lemonadebunny Ok, I will remind you on Wednesday Jul 5, 2023 at 2:43 PM PDT.
Oh my god... WHERE'S EPOXY HOTDOG GUY?!
uhhh... context pls?
Look up whathowwhy on YouTube. He's a dude from the UK who puts stuff into epoxy. A few years a go he put a hotdog into a cube of epoxy and would do periodic video updates on the hotdog. One year I actually watched the New Years Eve livestream of the hotdog slowly spinning on a dias. He'd put a little party hat on it and the live chat was absolutely hilarious.
A guy put a hotdog in epoxy...
And is checking in periodically with videos showing if it's decayed or stayed pristine in its cryogenic epoxy prison.
Has anyone checked on epoxy hot dog guy?!
Epoxy hotdog guy returns to reddit after a 5 year hiatus:
Probably one of the few useful bots ever added to Reddit.
We didn't need a million and one spelling, grammar and whatever other stupid bots the place got infected with. Hopefully Lemmy doesn't end up with them either.
My favorite was the would of/would've bot.
I feel like I haven’t seen a single person use “could of” or “would of” here.
The defense on Reddit was always “NOT EVERY1 ENGLISH FIRST LANGUAGE”
I don’t have the largest sample size, but I’ve never met someone who makes this mistake whose first language isn’t English.
I kind've feel the same way.
I seen alot of people who type the same way. Their so dumb.
I see what you did they're
Personally, I think the grammar bots fit right into Reddit culture.
Everyone is a smarty-pants on Reddit!
I do hope that people respect the instance hosts and go easy on the trivial bots when it comes to Lemmy though.
I didn't mind the fact that it was there, I was always just annoyed at how useless the memory hints were. Like yeah, of course I could spell "neither" if I just remember the e comes before the i... that's the problem.
It's like saying "if you want to be rich just get more money" or "NASCAR is easy cuz it's all left turns"
I after E, except after C; when it sounds like "ee".
....or when sounded like "ay" as in "neighbor" or "weigh".
Actually, let me double check that with my foreign buddies Keith and Heidi, they've got eight children who are all cops and busted a major counterfeit heist the other day. Weird, right?
Man, English blows.
Gimme Newspeak already. The world isn't cyberpunk enough yet.
I always thought it's funny to see such a spelling bot on linguistics themed subs where everyone was like "fck you descriptivist" and they were downvoted into oblivion
fck you descriptivist
You mean prescriptivist? 😅
(beep boom I'm a human)
This is the best showerthought I've seen in ages.
I think I'm going to like it here!
remind me 5 years
I was here in the beginning
I used to get a notification every year for some dude who had posted on reddit that he was alone on his birthday one year. He stopped replying several years ago, but I still messaged him each year at the prompt of remindme. So that's also a use case.
Kind of sad if you think about it... After my heart attack and open heart surgery, I had considered setting up a bot to randomly send an /r/aww or /r/funny link to my wife every day after I die. Glad I didn't now. :(
Man, fuck and unwillingly cuck spez. Seriously.
I’m glad you’re still going bud.
You were a good bot, RemindMe. I want you to remember that.
Like shadows burned on the sides of buildings in Hiroshima
Yes exactly. Wait. What?
I think they are talking about this but I don't exactly see how this is related to the topic
There's a short story by Ray Bradbury about an automated house that survives a nuclear blast. The shadows of the children throwing a ball are on the house outside, and inside the robots continue to service a family that's no longer there. That's what it reminds me of.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Will_Come_Soft_Rains_(short_story)
Oh man, this bums me out.
Don't worry, the bot will still respond and it will get 10,000 upvotes from other bots and replies like "grond" and "15 years is 7889400 minutes" and "pass me the breastplate stretcher!" and the one real person left on reddit will smile and think "I love being part of such a large and thriving online community".
Same :-(
Hello fellow blue name person.