Yall ever think about random stuff you care about slowly being lost to time? I have a way to fix it.

Yall ever think about random stuff you care about slowly being lost to time? I have a way to fix it.

People, games, movies, songs, videos, photos, posts, communities, servers, websites, ideas, books, memes, memories, places, inventions, comments, messages, podcasts, playlists, series, bookmarks... being lost to time, link rot, fading away from the public consciousness, being forgotten...

Imagine if there was a system where ANYTHING and EVERYTHING would, from time to time, have "its own day", where anyone who cares about anything can meet with other people about it, or even just be reminded of it.

That book you read years ago? Video you watched? Game you played? Person you met? Song you heard? Idea you had? Project you started? Thread you participated in? Message you sent? There's certain stuff everyone cares about and would like to remember it every now and then, but some of this stuff you just won't remember/think of ever again, that's scary. Some things that once had hundreds or thousands of fans/followers are slowly fading away as people remember it less and less often, until the very last person to ever think of it remembers it for one last time. How many items you have in playlists/bookmarks/watch later etc. that you never actually go over?

Instead of each thing having its own year/month/date etc. (like earth day or easter etc.)Imagine if everything had it's own special day with varying levels of significance and rarity people can "subscribe to".You like XYZ and want to remember is every 256 (2^8) days on average? Just add XYZ and a number 8 into the system. And the system will randomly remind you of XYZ (randomly every 256 days on average). Too often? Just bump the number from 8 to 9 (2^9 = 512) or higher and vice versa.The binary system allows for wide range of reminder frequencies while also being the most simple and fundamental. 1, 2, 4, 8 (~week), 16, 32 (~month), 64, 128, 256 (<year), 512 (>year), 1024, 2048 (5.6 years), 4096, 8192, 16384 (45 years) to infinity. Note: Only n = 0 (2^0 = 1) happens every single day. For any other value, each day has 1 / (2^n) chance to happen. Stuff is not truly random, it's deterministic and same for anyone who enters the same item into the system, works offline and core functionality can be implemented in like 100 lines of code. If many different people enter item XYZ into the system, they will get the reminders about item XYZ on the same days (note: reminder of level n also always lands on the same days as n-1, n-2 and so on)

As long as someone using this system would have some item inside the system, that item would technically still be alive. Idea is to have everything in the system. One could think of this system as the global perpetual randomized adjustable interval RemindMeBot for anything. I think one of the biggest things about it is the fact all interested parties get the reminder about the item of interest on the same day. Could be used as a meeting synchronization system for dying multiplayer games where the game/server might average 0-few players per day, but if they used the system, they could instead coordinate and meet for example every 64 days on average and play together, perhaps hundreds of people, who would otherwise be sparsely spread out over all days. (just one use case i thought of, there so many more)

People and entities could adopt this system, games could integrate it, websites, there could be a browser extension, imagine such a mass adoption where each item like YT video or reddit thread has a small number next to it that shows the current daily reminder level for it. One can dream...

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ChatGPT tl;dr https://pastebin.com/J4AySXH8
https://github.com/TypicalHog/randevu (barely working crude prototype thing)