If you own an Alexa, you might enjoy its integration with #IFTTT, an easy scripting environment that lets you create your own little voice-controlled apps, like "start my Roomba" or "close the garage door." If so, tough shit, Amazon just nuked IFTTT for Alexa:
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
#IFTTT was such a good idea... now they stopped my last three (free) apps because they are working well, and I don't have to login repeatedly to fix things. Seriously?
OK, #IFTTT has stopped my #bot (#RSS to Mastodon) and is now asking me for €2.5 to restart it as a "pro". I can't say I'm surprised … but I'm open to any good (and libre) alternative 🤓
I'm all about making my workflows easier and saving time. Found this great set of instructions to set up an #IFTTT recipe to post Tweets to Mastodon. My daily doors should start flowing soon ☺️
I just want an easy way to forward messages from a #Telegram channel to a #Discord channel, but in a way that an image is actually embedded in Discord as visible image and not just as a Link that, for whatever reason, is not shown as embedded image.
But I'm obviously too dumb to get that working with IFTTT, and their error messages aren't helpful at all.
I can't be the first person with that use-case, right!?
Y'all, I've been pecking away for the last few months on a guide for using #RSS and #IFTTT to follow breaking news (instead of social media.)
It's called "Make Your Own System For News Monitoring and Breaking Alerts With RSS, IFTTT, and Pushover." I'm about ten pages in (I want it be especially useful and information rich) but it's full-outlined.
Anybody out there interested in the topic? I could share the Google Doc. I might feel a little motivation if I thought someone besides me cared. 🙃
Starting to suck Mastodon posts into my Obsidian vault using #IFTTT and #Hazel. IFTTT monitors the RSS feed of my Mastodon account, and whenever a new entry hits, it creates a text file in Dropbox. Then Hazel on my Mac grabs the Dropbox file, reformats dates and whatnot, and saves it as a Markdown file in my Obsidian vault.
Neat.
I do this because my vault has an “On this day" query that shows me posts, notes, and other stuff from this day in past years. I do this with Instagram also.
Wow, all set kids! I'm still using #IFTTT, but now I'm all done cheerleading for them. They told me I was being moved off of my "Name Your Own Price" plan and onto a different plan, without my approval, and they are hiking the monthly price by $1.
So it turns out the whole "Name Your Own Price" marketing bullshit was bullshit. But then, we always knew it was bullshit.
So, avoid IFTTT. They are lying greedy fascist piggies. Like all the rest.
I got an email from #IFTTT saying they were turning off my applets because they had been inactive for some time. I could not remember which applets I had set up, so I logged and saw that I had one to send "read later" items in Feedly to Instapaper.
However, I use it daily, the last time being the day IFTTT turned it off. So…?
Now I have to go back and manually send over everything I've flagged over the last 3 days (hopefully not that much!)
For those of you still on #Facebook, I’m afraid they no longer allow us to send our headlines to our own page via #IFTTT.
After a week of fighting #Amazon over stolen commissions and #Google over misinformation, we haven’t got the energy to fight #Facebook as well, sorry. It’s best if you bookmarked us or tapped into our RSS feeds at:
I got the "Your current Legacy Pro plan is becoming Pro+. You will have access to new features such as multi-account support, increased rate limits, and priority customer support." email from #IFTTT. I sent them a reply asking if I could just stay on my current plan. They are still less expensive than #Pipedream but more expensive than running a node script on a raspberry pi.