Hello and welcome to This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition, for the week of June 16th - 22nd, 2018. 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. Most meetings take place every other Wednesday, from 6:30pm to 7:30pm. A special Virtual Homebrew Website Club session on Blogging 101 was held on June 20th at 10:30pm Eastern Time. These sessions, run by Greg McVerry, focus on helping people beginning to blog, or adopting IndieWeb philosophies and tools into their blogging platform. Slides are now available for Calum Ryan's presentation on Redecentralizing the Web from the Web Standards meetup in London on June 16th. Check the newsletter for links. The next regularly scheduled Homebrew Website Club is June 27th, the same day as the close of the IndieWeb Summit in Portland, Oregon. Nuremberg, London, and Baltimore have confirmed meetups so far. If you're an organizer, please remember to update the wiki with information about your venue, times, and how to RSVP. And remember you can always find info about the next upcoming Homebrew Website Club meetups at indieweb.org/next-hwc Interested in starting a Homebrew Website Club in your city? It can be as simple as grabbing a friend and heading to your favorite coffee shop, bar, living room, or any other meeting place. You can find plenty of information about Homebrew Website Club, including tips for how to organize your own, at indieweb.org/hwc Join us for the 2018 IndieWeb Summit, which takes place this Tuesday June 26th and Wednesday June 27th in Portland, Oregon. The schedule for Tuesday includes keynotes from Manton Reece and Jean MacDonald of Micro.blog, Aaron Parecki and Jonathan Lacour discussing the next wave of IndieReaders, and William Hertling, author of the novel Kill Process. Learn more, and register for the Summit right now, at 2018.indieweb.org. 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. --- # Podcasts David Shanske and Chris Aldrich released "An Indieweb Podcast: Episode 7 The Reverse Salmention". In it, they discuss some changing and some hidden features in IndieWeb-related WordPress plugins, differences between web sign-in and IndieAuth, and discuss this week's IndieWeb Summit. --- And now, a selection of this week's updates from indieweb.org. # Community and Concepts Major improvements have been made this week to the "WordPress/Plugins" page on indieweb.org. Among the changes is a table that clarifies the features, installation, and how to get help for various plugins that enable IndieWeb features like Webmention, Micropub, and IndieAuth. Searching for just the right domain for your personal site, or for another project? You might want to check publicsuffix.org. Maintained by Mozilla, the site lists all available suffixes, including "top level domains", but also includes sub-levels like .co.uk. Martijn van der Ven has shared some work-in-progress thinking on how to run role-playing games between IndieWeb-enabled sites. Posting game moves to their personal sites allows players to keep archives of their adventures for as long as they want, and there are several play-by-post systems that might be adapted for this purpose. # Services and Organizations "Buffer", a service for scheduling posts to social media silos, has announced that as of July 26th they will no longer be able to support posting to personal Facebook profiles. This announcement comes after sweeping changes to Facebook's API in the wake of several data privacy scandals. The service will still be capable of managing Facebook Pages and Groups. Google-owned video silo "YouTube" stirred up controversy this week as they began blocking content from well-established channels, including MIT's OpenCourseWare initiative and the Blender Foundation. YouTube asserted that the blocks were a technical glitch as they rolled out new so-called "partner agreements". Blender Foundation's Ton Roosendaal believes that YouTube may be forcing larger channels to monetize their videos. In a five-to-four decision, the United States Supreme Court ruled this week that law enforcement will need a warrant to gather phone location data as trial evidence. The ruling centers around a 2011 case where Detroit police gathered four months of location data from the suspect's cellular provider - nearly thirteen thousand location points - without a warrant. Photo-sharing silo "500px" officially shut down free access to their APIs on June 15th. In an announcement about the change, they called it, quote, "part of a larger strategic shift", as they focus their energy to work on community. # IndieWeb Development An "auto-url-summary" is brief, human-readable text generated automatically from parts of a URL, often using special knowledge about the URL structures of particular domains. These summaries can provide some details of what the URL is about without needing to fetch and parse the content at the URL. Tracking information about users on your site? You might want to check out a recent piece from the Electronic Frontier Foundation on "The GDPR and Browser Fingerprinting". While many folks are aware that the European Union's privacy rules affect cookies, the EFF reminds us that they also affect more sneaky tracking methods, such as correlating installed fonts and other browser features. Additionally, the "cookies" page was updated with links to some oldie-but-goodie resources on how to securely store session information in cookies, should you decide to do so. Other new pages added to indieweb.org this week include: Installatron and sftp. Follow the links in the newsletter to learn more about, or add detail to, these new terms. --- 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.