This one looks promising from an open source alternative that you can host locally:

https://github.com/huginn/huginn

Ifttt is a joke compared to Yahoo Pipes. It can only do a very limited number of pre-defined transformations and it’s only 2 steps.

Yahoo Pipes was basically programming with a UI.

whatever your opinion is, it is still a viable alternative for doing simple things. the dude asked for alternatives, not opinions.