this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2023
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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. A showerthought should offer a unique perspective on an ordinary part of life.

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  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
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[–] MadBabs@lemmy.world 267 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] Thteven@lemmy.world 198 points 1 year ago

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".

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[–] InternetPirate@lemmy.fmhy.ml 250 points 1 year ago (2 children)

RemindMe bot is no longer functional following the API pricing change, and many Redditors are still unaware of this fact.

[–] Craftkorb@feddit.de 29 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I thought bots were exempt from paying?

[–] InternetPirate@lemmy.fmhy.ml 73 points 1 year ago

The unpopular ones can be used since they don't reach the API calls free limit.

[–] darkmatterstyx@lemmy.fmhy.ml 41 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I think only mod specific bots were immune. As idiotic as Reddit has been, it might still be running, but, how will it remind those of us that erased all comments and then deleted our accounts? I have a feeling that wasn't an official bot, so it was probably programed correctly so it won't spam them with replys to deleted accounts 😢

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[–] zkikiz@lemmy.ml 121 points 1 year ago

You were a good bot, RemindMe. I want you to remember that.

[–] Dr_Fetus_Jackson@lemmy.world 99 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the best showerthought I've seen in ages.

I think I'm going to like it here!

[–] Bobsyouruncle@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

remind me 5 years

I was here in the beginning

[–] GoosLife@lemmy.world 91 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] darkmatterstyx@lemmy.fmhy.ml 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I did the same, I hope they got them.

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[–] xaxl@lemmy.world 79 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

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.

[–] Vupperware@lemmy.world 55 points 1 year ago (13 children)

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.

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[–] rebelappliance@lemmy.dbzer0.com 77 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Like shadows burned on the sides of buildings in Hiroshima

[–] Boiglenoight@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] Stelus42@lemmy.ca 74 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Oh my god... WHERE'S EPOXY HOTDOG GUY?!

[–] mySFWaccount@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Has anyone checked on epoxy hot dog guy?!

[–] rcmaehl@lemmy.world 50 points 1 year ago

Epoxy hotdog guy returns to reddit after a 5 year hiatus:

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.one 70 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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. :(

[–] kambusha@feddit.ch 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Glad you're feeling better! Check out futureme.org to send emails to the future. I believe whichever email address you send to needs to confirm that it's ok, but then you can send emails years into the future. I've been using it since 2010 or so and trying to write a letter to myself every year that I'll receive on my 50th bday. Sometimes my wife and I also write each other one too.

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[–] psycrow@lemmy.world 70 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

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.

[–] Standroid@programming.dev 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] Darkwatch00@lemmy.fmhy.ml 66 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Damn this is a quality shower thought...sad but profound.

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[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 60 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Does the bot used the API to send the message? In that case not even a couple of months alerts are going to work.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 63 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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

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[–] vsp@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Awww, man.

Now I'm sad.

Thanks a lot, @orion2145. Not cool.

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[–] fidodo@lemm.ee 51 points 1 year ago (28 children)

In retrospect those were ridiculously optimistic

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[–] c3ndre@feddit.de 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I never thought about that before. I wonder how many were actually important.

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[–] zeppo@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago (8 children)

It was sort of ambitious for people to think they'd be on reddit with the same account in 20 years

[–] gk99@lemmy.world 72 points 1 year ago (10 children)

I don't think so, reddit was so dominant that had they simply not decided to anger all their power users, we'd all still be on there like nothing had changed. A good platform has staying power, I've been on Steam for 16 years and I have no plans of bailing on it because it's simply the best gaming platform I've ever used. It's not game lock-in or anything, most of my games I could buy elsewhere or pirate, I just like having the features and all these other ones popping up like GOG Galaxy still aren't overtaking it despite the good PR.

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Capitalism killed it. That's how things go. They are great for a while then get too big and have to keep growing for some reason. The pursuit of perpetual growth ruins everything

[–] Sigmatics@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 year ago (4 children)

aka the great enshittification of '23

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[–] Void_Reader@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] whoamibro@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Do we have any remindme bot in lemmy?

[–] lemonadebunny@lemmy.ca 57 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] remindme@mstdn.social 47 points 1 year ago (5 children)

@lemonadebunny Ok, I will remind you on Wednesday Jul 5, 2023 at 2:43 PM PDT.

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[–] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

RIP, let's be honest though it was just for the bit.

[–] 5redie8@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 year ago

Man this ruined my night

[–] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (10 children)

I think the bot was already down before the blackout. I remember trying to set a !remind me and nothing happened. Then I read somewhere that the bot was now offline.

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[–] at_an_angle@lemmy.one 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The only bot I'll actually miss is The-Paranoid-Android from the SCP page.

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[–] mojo@lemm.ee 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't think anyone reasonably expected it to work that long

[–] Elkaki123@vlemmy.net 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I actually did, there was no reason to suspect bots would stop working.

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[–] sucksatusernames@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] phorq@lemmy.ml 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Okay bro, I got ur back. I put it on the to-do list on my fridge for ya!

OK, I'll remind you on 2028 July 5 10:49:32UTC!

(I wrote a memo on a yellow post-it sticker, I hope I won't loose it by next week)

[–] mausy5043@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 26 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Would that bot even be functional long term with the API changes?

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[–] whiskeypickle@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 year ago

some adbot or AI bot will try to sell it a porn subscription.

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