Hello and welcome to This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition, for the week of March 18th - 24th, 2023. https://indieweb.org/this-week/2023-03-24.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 March 22nd with virtual meetups at 7pm for Europe and London time, and at 6pm for US/Pacific time. Discussion topics included browser tools for photo editing and streaming, dithered images, AI weirdness, upcoming ActivityPub and social web events, and more. You can find photos and links to notes from the meetups in the newsletter. Join us again on March 29th 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. In IndieWeb-related events, mark your calendar for March 29th and 30th for FediForum 2023. This two-day virtual unconference will have demos, discussions, and problem-solving sessions with the goal of improving the ActivityPub-powered federated social media ecosystem. --- And now, a selection of this week's updates from indieweb.org. # New Community Members Johanna joins us from diptera.casa. She works as a media designer and likes science fiction, reading, writing, singing, and doing things on the computer. Jeremy joins us from jeremyboles.com. He is a programmer and designer whose artistic focus can be broken down into software and technology, travel and culture, and storytelling and worldbuilding. Pablo joins us from lifeofpablo.com. He does IT, teaches web design, is a polyglot, and grew up in the town where Kool-Aid was invented. 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 Many social media silos, and even personal sites, act as chronological streams, with new posts constantly pushing the past away. Digests, posts which collate, curate, and summarize happenings over a period of time, can bring focus to the impactful and important things that might otherwise go unnoticed in the timeline. Some examples of digests include year-in-review posts, monthly recaps of places you've visited, and this weekly audio newsletter. # Services and Organizations Social media silos use a wide range of strategies to lock-in users by raising the costs of switching to another service. One common method is completely passive on their part - they simply offer no way for you to take your posts and other content out of their silo and move it to another service. # IndieWeb Development Data portability problems aren't unique to centralized social silos. Take Mastodon, a decentralized and open source system which does allow you to move accounts between servers while keeping your social ties. However, Mastodon currently has no /post_migration system, which would allow users to move posts from the old account to the new one. 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.