Hello and welcome to This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition, for the week of February 18th - 24th, 2023. https://indieweb.org/this-week/2023-02-24.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 February 22nd with a virtual meetup at 6pm for US/Pacific time. Discussion topics included the relevance of local content, collaborating with other communities, expanding IndieWeb adoption, and more. You can find photos and links to notes from the meetups in the newsletter. Join us again on March 1st for the next Homebrew Website Club, with virtual meetups scheduled at 7pm for Europe and London, and 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. --- 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. Ryan at snarfed.org published "The Twitter API is now effectively unmaintained". In it, Ryan sidesteps the CEO-driven chaos happening inside the company. Instead, he presents a stunning number of references that, taken together, strongly imply that there is no one from the pre-takeover team maintaining the developer API at Twitter. --- And now, a selection of this week's updates from indieweb.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 2023 marches on, and so does planning for upcoming IndieWeb events. Pop-up sessions are topic-focused virtual meetups that can be a great way to explore new ideas with a low time commitment. Check out the planning page at /2023/Pop-ups/Sessions to register your interest in existing proposals, or to propose your own. # Services and Organizations This week, Tantek at tantek.com wrote about the 5 year anniversary of the closing of the W3C /Social_Web_Working_Group. Working from 2014 to 2018, the SWWG developed open specifications for social interactions on the web. Inspired in part by the 2013 W3C Workshop on Social Standards, the Working Group is the originator of standards including ActivityPub, Micropub, and Webmention. Large social media silos have received criticism like having weak and inconsistently applied rules on harrassment and abuse. However, as the number of users on ActivityPub-powered "Fediverse" sites grows, so too does the challenge of /moderation, as a lack of agreed-upon standards leads to a confusion of rules and enforcement across instances. This can particularly harm members of marginalized communities. # IndieWeb Development If you're familiar with, or looking to learn, the Go programming language, you may want to check out /GoBlog, an open source blogging system supporting IndieWeb building blocks like Micropub and Webmention. Social media silos have popularized rich editors that allow mentioning people, adding hashtags, and inserting links with previews. Before those complex editor tools, however, many linking features in posts began as inline punctuation, also known as /microsyntaxes. 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.