If there isn’t yet, what’re the challenges to overcome in making one?

Not that I can code, just hoping for at least a layman’s understanding.

  • squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de
    641·
    3 months ago

    Yes. There is one on Mastodon that you can use on Lemmy thanks to federation.

    Let’s see if it still works

    @remindme@mstdn.social 1 hour

      • Lazycog@sopuli.xyz
        13·
        3 months ago

        This is cool, you can even request the reminder to be sent to your DM! (Add “dm” between remindbots name-pinging and time)

        • squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de
          11·
          3 months ago

          Yes. It’s explained in the bots’ bio

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

          You can also use ISO-8601 date times! E.g., “@remindme 2025-03-15”, “@remindme 2025-04-20T12:53-02:00”

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

    • dis_honestfamiliar@lemmy.sdf.org
      4·
      3 months ago

      Can you explain this to me more. It seems mastodon account can be used to post on Lemmy, but is the opposite possible? Can I use Lemmy account on mastodon?

      • aasatru@kbin.earth
        101·
        3 months ago

        Lemmy does not normally display microblog content from Mastodon. You cannot follow users and see their posts listed on their profile or elsewhere, and as a result you cannot see or comment on their posts either.

        Mastodon users can, however, tag a community on Lemmy the same way they can tag a user. If they do so, their post will appear as a thread in the tagged Lemmy community, and Lemmy users will be able to respond to them.

        Mastodon users can basically pop up in the comment section any time, should they stumble over it for some reason or another. This could happen in many different ways: They could follow a hashtag, someone could share (boost) content into their feed, they could be mentioned, or they could read the Lemmy community and manually open the thread in Mastodon to reply.

    • Pamasich@kbin.earth
      1·
      3 months ago

      Can I use this bot somehow in a community that’s not federated to mstdn.social? Not that I have such a use case currently, just wondering.

      The Reddit RemindMe bot allowed direct messaging it to create a reminder, does this one have a similar feature?