Hello and welcome to This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition, for the week of April 8th - 14th, 2023. https://indieweb.org/this-week/2023-04-14.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 April 12th with virtual meetups at 7pm for Europe and London time and 6pm for US/Pacific, as well as on April 15th for "Galactic Bonus" Homebrew Website club. Discussion topics included URL design, IndieAuth, open source video conferencing, side- and footnotes, and more. You can find photos and links to notes from the meetups in the newsletter. Join us again on April 19th for the next Homebrew Website Club, with a virtual meetup scheduled at 7pm for Europe and 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. On April 14th THE Eleventy Meetup hosted a special session on IndieWeb features. Learn more at 11tymeetup.dev and check out their YouTube page which will host the videos from the event. 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. Mark at marksuth.dev published "IndiePass Update - April 2023". In it, he announces a return to work on the open source IndieWeb-powered social reader for Android and iOS. This first round of updates will focus on meeting platform requirements and upgrading UI, with new features on the roadmap once this version is in its respective app stores. Ryan at snarfed.org posted "Android IndieWeb interactions with the HTTP Shortcuts app". While waiting for updates to IndiePass, Ryan is making IndieWeb actions such as likes, replies, reposts, and following, as seamless as possible from his phone. If you're an Android user and your site supports Micropub, Ryan has shared his HTTP Shortcuts configurations for you to try. James at jamesg.blog published "Exploring Personal Websites". In it, he shares some of his favorite resources for finding new and interesting personal sites. Examples include the IndieWeb webring, omg.lol, Neocities, Micro.blog, and blogroll.org. The Haven Blog at havenweb.org posted "Private Comments, or Why I’m Down On Webmentions". In it they predict that Webmentions will soon have an overwhelming spam problem, and they propose a private commenting system which they plan to integrate into Haven. Fluffy at beesbuzz.biz posted a reply to Haven's post, adding that Webmentions aren't well supported for private posts. The public-by-default design of Webmention tools makes it difficult for them to meaningfully get information about private posts, and increases the risks of publicly leaking private post content. --- 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 Whether your site design is more of a time-based stream, a card-catalog of notes, a digital garden, or something else entirely, there are always more ways for visitors to discover your posts. For example, you might consider adding a link or button that directs them to a /random page. # Services and Organizations As billionaire's plaything Twitter continues to burn, one major news organization has committed to quitting the smoldering social media silo. After Twitter labeled some of their accounts as "state-affiliated media", National Public Radio, NPR, ceased posting there across more than 50 accounts. You can find their comments about the situation on their own site, npr.org. # IndieWeb Development Huge companies like Zoom and Skype dominate the landscape, but there are other ways to do /video_conferencing, including hosting them on your own site. James, at jamesg.blog, posted how he added video conferencing support to his site with open source software MediaSoup. 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.