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:
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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!)
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. 🙃
I like #ActivityPub a lot. I used to use #IFTTT to sync content around the internet (for instance: Blogger to Flicker, Tumblr, Twitter, and Mastodon) because I wanted to be where people are. With ActivityPub, you don't need to do that. As long as each service supports it, you can follow an account from one service on another service.
I am surprised tech companies are still complaining about not being able to automatically post their content to #Twitter. They can technically still do this via #IFTTT on an inexpensive premium plan.
Before Twitter collapsed, a lot of my online identity was connected to my account on the service. A lot of my content was also trapped inside of silos that were controlled by corporations. I attempted in 2018 to reduce my dependency on things like Twitter and Instagram by using IFTTT to mirror content to things like Mastodon, Flickr, and Tumblr. After the collapse, I made Mastodon, Pixelfed, and this blog more central to my online identity. These services all use ActivityPub and services that federate with each other are the future of the social web.
That said, I still cross-post content from the fediverse to Flickr, Tumblr, and Linkedin. Both Flickr and Tumblr are reportedly considering adding federation. Until then, I figure that it helps those who are trapped in those ecosystems. I have also experimented with cross-posting from the blog to Bluesky but the API isn’t simple enough to make it feasible. It looks like Threads is adding federation in the next year or two. I hope that eventually, federation becomes a basic expectation.
If you find yourself seeking services that prioritize user control and data ownership but are unsure how to begin, feel free to share your thoughts or questions in the comments.
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:
#IFTTT really think they're clever tryin to bully their users into their "pro+" plan for users who had been with them since the start. They really think it's cute to strong arm people into paying them more money.
Forcing change on your users with less than a week to look for alternatives isn't cute.
Hey #Mastodon looking for alternatives to #IFTTT to help make self promo automated and less painful for me, currently I use them to connect my #Youtube to the meta demon (Facebook) and the X'd 😵💀Birb (Twitter)
Any suggestions without too much tinkering involved to avoid dealing with my cognitive issues and tech trauma would be much appreciated
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 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.