Feature request: IFTTT Mastodon Service

[mdehollander]

It would be nice to have Mastodon as a service on IFTTT: https://platform.ifttt.com/

Then it would be possible to automatically toot from an RSS feed for example.

[ghost]

There's two reasons this will never work outside Webhooks, which you can already use / write yourself.

• IFTTT expects one consumer, not a bunch of instances. The service that talks to IFTTT would need to be maintained by joinmastodon/mastodon.social staff, and that's not really federated. Every instance would need their own IFTTT account. And that's a bit of a problem with the next point...
• IFTTT wants money. Not just a bit, quite a bit actually. I think it was in the high 3 digits per month for the cheapest before they took down actual figures and switched to contact sales.

[mdehollander]

Thanks for your reply and the information. This is really good to know and I fully understand why this is problematic. Hearing about the commercial activities of IFTTT, I start to think to spend time to use open source alternatives like Huginn for this purpose. But here there is the same problem with federated netowrks: huginn/huginn#353 (comment)

[ellotheth]

Possibly this should be an issue on the project repository, not the docs?