Hello and welcome to This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition, for the week of June 17th - 23rd, 2023. https://indieweb.org/this-week/2023-06-16.html This Week in the IndieWeb is a weekly digest of activities in the IndieWeb community at indieweb.org. It contains recent and upcoming events, posts from IndieNews, and a summary of website updates. This Week in the IndieWeb is sent out Fridays at 2pm Pacific time, with this audio edition appearing over the weekend. You can find the web edition of This Week in the IndieWeb, including all links and an archive of all past editions at indieweb.org/this-week --- # Events Homebrew Website Club is a bi-weekly meetup of people passionate about or interested in creating, improving, building, and designing their own website. Homebrew Website Club met on June 21st with a virtual meetup at 7pm for Europe and London time. Discussion topics included the Gemini protocol, multi-language support, owning too many domains, and more. You can find photos and links to notes from the meetups in the newsletter. Join us again on June 28th for the next Homebrew Website Club, with a virtual meetup scheduled at 6pm for US/Pacific time. Then, it's a Galactic Bonus Homebrew Website Club on Saturday, July 1st, beginning at 1pm US/Pacific. You can always find info about the next upcoming Homebrew Website Club meetups and other IndieWeb events at events.indieweb.org. If you're an organizer, please remember to update the site with information about your venue, times, and how to RSVP. On June 21st, Learn WordPress Online community workshops hosted WordPress and the IndieWeb. In it, David Wolfpaw discussed the IndieWeb movement and how to use WordPress to build your own IndieWeb friendly site. Video is already available at wordpress.tv. All IndieWeb events follow the IndieWeb Code of Conduct, which can be found at indieweb.org/coc. And, all IndieWeb events are volunteer-run, so if you are interested in helping organize, getting the word out, finding sponsors, and more let us know in the chat at chat.indieweb.org. Planning is underway for an IndieWebCamp Nuremburg for 2023. Tentatively scheduled for October 28th and 29th, it will be adjacent to the border:none conference, which is celebrating its 10 year anniversary. --- == REUSE == And now, a selection of this week's updates from indieweb.org. ==/REUSE == If you haven't already, now is a good time to create your own user page. It's a great way to introduce yourself to the IndieWeb community, and to collect the things that you are working on, or want to work on, for your personal website. For more details, visit indieweb.org/wikifying. # Community and Concepts From the 1990s web to today, small images known as /buttons (or badges) are a fun way to show support or membership on your personal site. Tiny buttons at 80 by 15 pixels can show off a bit of pixelated text, or go 88 by 31 pixels for a more retro look. # Services and Organizations Moving accounts between federated services like Mastodon keeps improving, with most sites allowing you to keep your following and followers list after a move. However, one popular request, migrating all your posts to the new instance, comes with a tough issue that isn't technical at all. Each Mastodon instance has its own rules for content moderation, and likely does not have the people power to review a large batch of new incoming posts. As Reddit protests continue, more communities are leaving the platform in search of a new home. Some are moving to Lemmy, a federated bookmarking and commenting service with support for ActivityPub, and also supporing some IndieWeb building blocks like Webmention. # IndieWeb Development The IndieWeb dev chat channel has recently been buzzing with discussions of ActivityPub, particularly challenges related to interoperability. Folks looking to integrate ActivityPub into their projects and personal sites may want to look at - or contribute to - a W3C developer primer, currently in progress on the wiki at w3.org. Google has announced that they are selling off their DNS registration service, Google Domains. In addition to integrating with Googles other cloud computing services, Google Domains has at times been the only place to register domains like dot-dev. The service, which includes about 10 million domains, has been sold to high-priced web hosting provider Squarespace. For their part, Squarespace assures that customers will get the same renewal prices for the next 12 months, but also promised to provide "incentives" for customers to host and manage their sites on Squarespace. As always, you can follow the links in the newsletter to learn more about and add detail to any of these concepts. --- That's going to do it for this week. Thank you for listening! This English version of This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition was read and produced by Marty McGuire. If you have suggestions for improving this audio edition of the newsletter, please feel free to contact Marty in the IndieWeb chat. This Week in the IndieWeb and the IndieNews services are provided by Aaron Parecki. Music for this episode comes from Aaron Parecki's 100 Days of Music project. Find out more at 100.aaronparecki.com. Learn more about the IndieWeb at indieweb.org, and join the discussion via Slack, IRC, or the web at chat.indieweb.org.