Hello and welcome to This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition, for the week of April 1st - 7th, 2023. https://indieweb.org/this-week/2023-04-07.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 April 5th with a virtual meetup at 7pm for Europe and London time. Discussion topics included generative AI for text, images, and audio, digital gardens, outboard brains, developments in the Fediverse, and more. You can find photos and links to notes from the meetups in the newsletter. Join us again on April 12th for the next Homebrew Website Club, with a virtual meetup scheduled at 6pm for US/Pacific time. A few days later, on April 15th, you're invited to Galactic Bonus Homebrew Website Club at 9am US/Pacific time. 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. On April 14th at 1pm US/Eastern, THE Eleventy Meetup, will host a special session on IndieWeb features. Presenters will demonstrate how to build an automatically updating "/now" page, as well as how to integrate Webmentions into your 11ty-powered site. Learn more and watch for the link to join the virtual event at 11tymeetup.dev. --- 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. James, at jamesg.blog, made three IndieWeb-related posts this week. "Using footnotes for link reminders while writing," "Throwbacks and Brainstorming Timehop for Blogs,", and "Personal Websites and the Open Internet." Ryan, at snarfed.org, posted "So long, Twitter API, and thanks for all the fish." In it, he discusses the end of Bridgy's support for Twitter - a popular way to backfeed likes and comments from the social media silo to your own personal site. While Twitter's announcements claimed that new plans at exhorbitant prices would be taking effect by April 29th, Bridgy's API access was unceremoniously suspended on April 4th. Similar tools such as WordPress' Jetpack service have reportedly also lost Twitter access. --- And now, a selection of this week's updates from indieweb.org. 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 Whether for microblogs, photo blogs, or posting long articles, time-based feeds have become extremely popular designs on personal sites. For some, however, their site can be a way to build collections of topics and relationships over time. The terms differ, with some calling these "digital gardens" or likening them to "commonplace books". No matter the name, or the specific philosophy of knowledge management, your personal site can be a playground for experimentation, connection, and growth. # Services and Organizations At newsletter.mollywhite.net, journalist Molly White this week posted "Feedly launches strikebreaking as a service". In it, the author details the history of Feedly, a hosted service for reading RSS feeds, its rise in popularity after the shutdown of Google Reader, and its recent forays into AI and trying to serve Enterprise customers. This trend culminated recently when Feedly announced it would offer AI models for tracking "protests," promising to help track "strikes" and "rallies", which Feedly positioned as a threat to company assets and employees. 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.