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.
I'm considering creating a Ghost account which would replace my Substack and become the primary driver behind my online presence. How has that process gone for others? Are there IFTTT applets you use to connect into your Fediverse accounts?
What I really want is a one-stop-publishing experience, where I can post to a website I own and have my work sent off to every social account and website I have. $10/mo is steep for me, but I'd like to think it's an investment.
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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@neil I nearly got into #ifttt. Then just as I was waiting for my first smart plugs to arrive they jacked up their prices and someone told me about #HomeAssistant
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.
👉🏾 Tumblr sees little upside on embracing ActivityPub
👉🏾 Embracing Fediverse would skyrocket costs
👉🏾 Tumblr to #WordPress auto post as work around
👉🏾 Tumblr could just make it a premium feature for custom domains (to discourage spammers)
@osma I agree as a large number of people would join #Tumblr if the site embraced the #Fediverse (reporters, governments, etcetera). I think Automattic knows that as well, but they can not justify the extra cost.
I am basically waiting for #WordPress dot com to activate #ActivityPub on a lower tier account, & I will use #IFTTT to auto post content there underneath a subdomain.
My #Discord, #Mastodon, #Twitch, and #Github bots are all back online that were on my @Raspberry_Pi . The SD card had died.
I made my own project to post when you are live on Twitch to post to Mastodon, I also made a project when I star a project on Github it will post it to Mastodon.
@dfeldman I subscribe to a few Lemmy/Kbin communities, a few @pixelfed accounts, a few WordPress sites (that works if the site sets it up), a few @gotosocial accounts, and a few municipal twitter accounts (using bird.makeup). The magic of #ActivityPub is that all of those things can talk to each other, so you no longer need to #IFTTT your shit from service to service to make it available.
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!?
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.
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.
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. 🙃