Hello and welcome to This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition, for the week of August 12th - 18th, 2023. https://indieweb.org/this-week/2023-08-18.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 August 16th with virtual meetups at 7pm for Europe and London time and 6pm for US/Pacific. Discussion topics included site builders and sandboxes, web art, planning for in-person events, and more. You can find photos and links to notes from the meetups in the newsletter. Join us again on August 23rd for the next Homebrew Website Club, with virtual meetups scheduled at 7pm for Europe and London, and 6pm for US/Pacific time. Also, mark your calendars for the next Galactic Bonus Homebrew Website Club on Saturday, August 26th starting at 9am 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. 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. Ender, at enderverse.org, has proposed an in-person Pop-up event in New York City, tentatively midday either Saturday September 9th or Sunday the 10th. Proposed topics so far include building a website in an hour, handmade web, and web art. Register your interest and availability at indieweb.org/pop-up. Join us virtually on Saturday, September 23rd at 9am US/Pacific for an IndieWeb Pop-Up discussing Multi-Lingual Personal Websites. Then on the following Saturday, September 30th, it's time for another Build a Website in an Hour jam. Learn more and RSVP at events.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. --- Here is a brief summary of posts collected this week by IndieNews, a community-curated list of articles relevant to the IndieWeb. You can read more, or submit posts of your own, at news.indieweb.org. Ben, at werd.io, posted "Publishers on social media are between a rock and a hard place". In it, he lists specific challenges that teams face with reach, analytics, community, and more on today's social networks. He encourages publishers to take more responsibility for managing their content and audience relationships with tools like newsletters, feeds, and of course their own websites. Simone, at minutestomidnight.co.uk, posted "Enjoy the difference". In it, he discusses some personal examples of productive disagreements in music production communities. He explores positive examples from face-to-face communities, Mastodon, and Substack and contrasts them against competitive or scammy online spaces like Twitter and Facebook groups. --- And now, a selection of this week's updates from indieweb.org. # New Community Members Jan-Lukas joins from JLElse.blog. He is a software developer and blogger who uses hobby programming as a way of turning ideas into reality. Andrew joins from rubenwardy.com. He's a software developer and open source contributor with interests in user experience, game development, electronics, and physics. Ender joins from enderverse.org, where they write about math and computer science. 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 Homebrew Website Club events have largely taken place virtually since 2020. However, a recent common topic at these virtual meetups is planning the return of physical or hybrid physical and virtual events. Cities with planned or proposed events include: Nuremberg, Berlin, New York City, Sacramento, San Francisco, and Edinburgh. Organizers are needed to help with locations, times, facilitation, and more. If you're interested, don't forget to review the planning pages on the wiki, say hello in the chat, and join an online Homebrew Website Club on an upcoming Wednesday. # Services and Organizations Many social silos follow a deeply criticized but nevertheless popular technique of replacing user-supplied links with shortened or "wrapped" links that are under the control of the silo itself. X/Twitter was in the news this week with its t.co link wrapping service demonstrating two textbook examples of why this pattern is criticized. First, users noticed that outbound links from tweets to certain sites were receiving an added 5 second delay before redirecting to sites like Facebook, Bluesky, and the New York Times. Next up, links and media in all tweets from an estimated period between 2011 and 2014 broke across the site, as all t.co wrapped links from this time have stopped working. 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.