Hello and welcome to This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition, for the week of December 10th - 16th, 2022. https://indieweb.org/this-week/2022-12-16.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 14th with two virtual gatherings. One for Europe and London time, one for US/Pacific. You can find photos and links to notes from the meetup in the newsletter. Join us again on December 21st, when a virtual Homebrew Website Club is scheduled for 6pm US/Pacific. 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. --- And now, a selection of this week's updates from indieweb.org. ## New Community Members Nicole is currently setting up her IndieWeb site at moderntraditional.com. You can also learn more at Nicole's blog, ironwynch.com. That's i-r-o-n-w-y-n-c-h.com. Rei joins us from eventide.space. Rei describes himself as a nerd living in Europe who likes programming. He is also active in the Yesterweb community. 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 In July of this year, Ariadne Conill published a piece titled "a silo can never provide digital autonomy to its users". In it, the author evaluates popular code collaboration hub and static site host Github and the relatively new Tumblr-like social media site Cohost. Find this, and many other reasons to build your presence on the IndieWeb on the /why page. It's December, and the 2022 IndieWeb Gift calendar is cranking along. This week, Ryan Barrett, at snarfed.org, has been busy with improvements documenting his Bridgy and Bridgy Fed services, as well as releasing a Python library named lexrpc, aimed at interoperating with the Bluesky Project's AT protocol. Other gifts this week include wiki cleanups about ActivityStreams 2.0, Homebrew Website Club events, and this very podcast. To find all gifts so far, find inspiration for something to add, and to add your own, check out the gift calendar page at /2022-12-indieweb-gift-calendar. ## Services and Organizations If you were hoping to get through this week's newsletter without a mention of Twitter or its CEO, I am very sorry. Revue, at getrevue.co is a newsletter service owned by Twitter. This week it was announced that Revue will be shutting down in January 2023, giving users little more than a month to download their subscriber lists and newsletters. The announcement came very shortly after former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey published a piece on Revue titled "a native internet protocol for social media" in which he condemned past and present practices for removing content from Twitter. In further Twitter news, Twitter is now blocking links to known "fediverse" servers such as Mastodon and Pixelfed instances, and in some cases suspending the accounts that post them. This is the latest escalation from Twitter which began with banning an account named @ElonJet, an account dedicated to reposting public FAA data about Twitter CEO Elon Musk's flight plans. The ban campaign then spread to include dozens of journalists who reported on the banning of @ElonJet, and accounts that linked to the presence of ElonJet on other social media services such as Instagram and Mastodon. ## IndieWeb Development Looking to add social interactions to your static site? The /Webmention page was updated this week with an example from community member EINDEX describing how he integrates Webmentions into his Zola-powered blog. Interested in making your IndieWeb projects in Rust? Check out the /link_rel_parser page for a link to a Rust crate for parsing rel values from inside HTTP Link headers and HTML `` tags. Ben Werdmuller, at werd.io, published "Building an open share button for the distributed social web". In it, he brainstorms a "microshare" feature to allow sharing links from around the web to your own personal site or any social platform. You can learn more about past work in this area on the /webactions and /Web_Share_API pages. --- 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.