Hello and welcome to This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition, for the week of December 17th - 23rd, 2022. https://indieweb.org/this-week/2022-12-23.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 December 21st with two virtual gatherings, including a Year-in-Review themed meetup at Europe/London time, as well as the usual weekly meeting at US/Pacific time. You can find photos and links to notes from the meetups in the newsletter. Join us again on December 28th for the next US/Pacific virtual Homebrew Website Club at 6pm, and on January 4th for the next meetup at Europe/London 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. The next IndieWeb Create Day is scheduled for Monday, December 26th from 9am to 6pm US/Pacific time. Join other members of the IndieWeb community via text chat or Zoom to work on and share your personal website projects. Learn more at indieweb.org/2022/Create. 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, mark your calendar for Sunday, January 15th, when IndieWeb community member James will present "Decentralized Website Communication with Webmention" at codementor.io. You can find out more and get your free ticket at events.indieweb.org. --- 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. David Shanske, at david.shanske.com, posted about the version 4.4 release of Syndication Links for WordPress. The updated plugin is a major rewrite of the code that fixes some small issues and adds new features including syndication to Bridgy via Micropub. --- And now, a selection of this week's updates from indieweb.org. ## New Community Members Chris joins us from chrisruppel.com. He's been adding IndieWeb building blocks to his site since at least 2016, and uses subcomains to experiment without tying everything into a single codebase or tech stack. T Michelle Moore also joins us from tmichellemoore.com. She's adding IndieWeb building blocks to her WordPress-powered site and learning more about IndieWeb concepts. 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 It's December, and we've got another full week of updates for the 2022 IndieWeb Gift calendar. This week features the release of Paul Robert Lloyd's Indiekit, improvements to Bridgy documentation, an F# package for receiving webmentions, automated reminders for event photos, and more. One week remains in December, so check out all gifts so far, find inspiration for something to add, and add your own on the gift calendar page at /2022-12-indieweb-gift-calendar. And as 2023 approaches, now is a good time to post your #newwwyear commitments for your website. That's hashtag-n-e-w-w-w-y-e-a-r, and it's a great way to make and share a plan for ways you'll use and improve your personal site in 2023. ## Services and Organizations In obligatory Twitter news, the embattled social media site attempted to raise its silo walls even higher this week when they announced a new "Promotion of alternative social platforms policy." In it, Twitter promised to suspend accounts that linked to profiles on competing social media sites, and the policy was quickly deployed against accounts of public detractors of Twitter and its CEO. Within a day Twitter deleted the policy document and tweets related to its announcement. With more people flocking to Mastodon instances, more points of friction are coming to light. Check out the /Mastodon page for discussion about difficulties finding federated replies, centralization of large Mastodon instances, and more. Users of password management service LastPass should, for the second time this year, change all their passwords and consider switching tools. This week LastPass announced that a security breach from August was but one part of a larger hack that led to the disclosure of encrypted customer vault data, protected only by the strength of the user's vault password. # IndieWeb Development "follow your nose" is a methodology for discovery algorithms. In contrast to the so-called "well-known" approach that mandates hardcoded URLs for metadata on each domain, "follow your nose" encourages including metadata about a particular URL in the content for that URL. Looking for a way to preserve your Twitter posts? Consider hosting an archive on your own site. Or perhaps the Internet Archive! The /Twitter page has links to several ways you can publish your tweets on your own terms. Other new terms this week include: Novacast and "You have 100 notifications". You can 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.