Hello and welcome to This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition, for the week of April 14th - 20th, 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. Homebrew Website Club met on April 18th in Nurnberg, Brighton, and San Francisco for a special 418 meetup serving tea. Portland hosted a Homebrew Microblog Meetup on April 18th as well. You can find photos and links to notes from the meetups in the newsletter. Homebrew Website Club will next meet on May 1st in Baltimore, and the next regularly scheduled Homebrew Website Club meeting will be May 2nd, with Nurnberg, London, and San Francisco confirmed 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 Dates have been announced for IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf, scheduled to take place May 5th and 6th at sipgate in Düsseldorf, Germany, just before the beyond tellerand event. Learn more and register now at indieweb.org/2018/Düsseldorf. Save the dates for the 2018 IndieWeb Summit, which will take place on Tuesday June 26th and Wednesday June 27th in Portland, Oregon. The two-day summit will be a part of the larger week-long Open Source Bridge conference. Organizers and volunteers are invited to contribute at indieweb.org/2018. 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. In IndieWeb related events, join us next week on April 28th in Bellingham, Washington for an IndieWeb 101 session at Linux Fest Northwest, presented by William "Salt" Hale. --- # Podcasts David Shanske and Chris Aldrich have released episodes 1 and 2 of "An IndieWeb Podcast", featuring their discussions on where to go when leaving Facebook, what is IndieAuth, and developments in Micropub for WordPress. --- And now, a selection of this week's updates from indieweb.org. # New Community Members Shridhar Jayanthi joins us from hate-titles.com. Shridhar recently set up a new self-hosted website using Known, and plans to add on top of it by writing plugins. Sean Smith joins us from wwsean08.com. Sean is a software engineer trying to leave code better than the way he found it, and to get better about open source contributions and teaching what he knows. Kate Park joins us from kate-park.com. Kate says, "Hello, World!" 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 "unlisted" posts are publicly visible posts that are not included in a homepage or main feed for your site. Posts may be unlisted for many reasons, such as reducing the number of posts in a feed or as a way of making semi-private posts. Planning has begun for the 2018 Leaders Summit, a half-day of activities and sessions for organizers of IndieWebCamps and Homebrew Website Clubs. This year's meeting will take place on Monday, June 25th. Interested organizers should RSVP and add to the agenda at 2018/Summit. # Services and Organizations GNUSocial.de, a node in the decentralized OStatus federated social network which hosts some 1,900 user accounts, announced that they will be shutting down at the end of May. Reasons for the shutdown include a lack of updates from the developers of GNU Social, as well as ongoing maintenance costs. Existing users are encouraged to use third-party tools to export their content and to find a new home on another federated instance. Hosted wiki provider wikispaces.com announced that they will begin shutting down this year, beginning with free accounts in July, paid accounts in September, and finally private labeled accounts in January of 2019. Export tools will be provided to users with administrator access to their wikis. Renee Diresta published a post at wired.com titled "UP NEXT: A BETTER RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM". In it, Diresta explores ways that silos like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Pinterest - which use recommender systems to try and keep users browsing the sites - can possibly tweak these systems to reduce the spread of conspiracy theories, fake news, and radicalizing content. And posts about quitting social media continue to roll in. * This week, UK pub chain JD Wetherspoon announced that it was quitting Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram and focusing on its website at jdwetherspoon.com. * Also, a new book coming out in May by Jaron Lanier promises to give readers "Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now". * Lanier recently gave a TED talk titled "How we need to remake the internet" in which he says, quote: "We cannot have a society in which, if two people wish to communicate, the only way that can happen is if it's financed by a third person who wishes to manipulate them." # IndieWeb Development IndieWeb reader client Indigenous for Android is now in alpha, and developer Kristof de Jaeger is looking for alpha testers. Interested Android users should check the "Indigenous for Android" page for info on how to install the app, but please note that you will need to provide your own Microsub-enabled server. Interested in keeping long-term read-only archives of your site? Have you considered... printing? Peter Molnar, at petermolnar.net, has published a detailed "Guide on how to make your website printable with CSS" that is loaded with considerations and suggestions on how to make a readable, printable page. Sophia Ciocca published a piece at The New York Times Open blog titled "Building a Text Editor for a Digital-First Newsroom". In it, the author takes a detailed code-level dive into the workings of Oak, an in-house text editor built on ProseMirror that aims to make it easy for authors and editors to manage assets, track changes, and much more. Aaron Parecki published a post on the Okta developers blog titled "WebAuthn: A Developer's Guide to What's on the Horizon". In it, Parecki describes the nuts and bolts of the W3C Web Authentication API, which will enable websites to identify users using hardware tokens rather than passwords. The API is currently available in developer versions of Chrome and Firefox. Other new terms in the newsletter this week include: "org mode", nymwars, A2P, "short code", tagmoji, tummler, and "greatest thing in the world". Check the links in the newsletter for more information about, or to add new 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.