Hello and welcome to This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition, for the week of April 29th - May 5th, 2023. https://indieweb.org/this-week/2023-05-05.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 May 3rd with a virtual meetup at 7pm for Europe and London time. Discussion topics included Bluesky, Hot Glue, AI-generated audio and video, the number of days since a domain was last purchased at a Homebrew Website Club, and more. You can find photos and links to notes from the meetup in the newsletter. Join us again on May 10th for the next Homebrew Website Club, with a virtual meetup scheduled at 6pm for 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. 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. --- # Podcasts On May 1st, the Oxide and Friends podcast featured guests Erin Kissane and Tim Bray. In it, they discussed Erin's recent piece "Blue Skies over Mastodon", the promised features and general vibes of both federated social networking systems, and more. --- And now, a selection of this week's updates from indieweb.org. # New Community Members Johanna joins us from a new site at dead.garden. Massi joins us from massimiliano.farinetti.eu. And KMF Studios Archives joins from kmfstudiosarchives.neocities.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 you're launching a new game or pushing a cryptocurrency-based financial scam, real-time chat services like Discord are often touted as a quick way to build community. However, these private, off-the-web spaces are often ephemeral, which poses a challenge to the longevity of the communities they claim to support. # Services and Organizations Soon-to-be-federating social network Bluesky has been heating up the last several weeks. It's creators rightfully drew ire for sparking an invite-driven hype cycle before launching even basic safety features. With muting and blocking now in place, the still-in-beta service has been building a reputation for "fun, weird vibes". # IndieWeb Development As interest grows in Bluesky, and the open AT protocol which promises to make it decentralized through federation, folks are working on new tools and software libraries to interoperate. Manton Reece has announced support for syndication between Micro.blog accounts and Bluesky. firesky.tv has launched a realtime web view of every post in Bluesky, for as long as it can keep up. And James at jamesg.blog has launched bsky.link, a wrapper service to allow embedding Bluesky posts as microformats2-enhanced HTML. Along similar lines, James has also launched mf2.link, a more general wrapper service for creating microformats2-enhanced HTML from other types of links. 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.