Hello and welcome to This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition, for the week of August 25th - 31st, 2018. 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. Most meetings take place every other Wednesday, from 6:30pm to 7:30pm. Join us this week on September 5th for another Homebrew Website Club! Meetups have been confirmed for Nürnberg, Baltimore, and Austin, as well as a special HWC Portland in the lead up to the XOXO Festival. If you're an organizer, please remember to update the wiki with information about your venue, times, and how to RSVP. And remember you can always find info about the next upcoming Homebrew Website Club meetups at indieweb.org/next-hwc Interested in starting a Homebrew Website Club in your city? It can be as simple as grabbing a friend and heading to your favorite coffee shop, bar, living room, or any other meeting place. You can find plenty of information about Homebrew Website Club, including tips for how to organize your own, at indieweb.org/hwc IndieWebCamp Oxford will be held at White October on September 22nd and 23rd in Oxford, UK. Registration is open now, so head on over to indieweb.org/2018/Oxford for details. IndieWebCamp NYC will be held at Pace University in Manhattan on September 28th and 29th. Registration is open now, and volunteers are needed. Find out more at indieweb.org/2018/NYC. The third IndieWebCamp Nuremberg will take place on October 20th and 21st, 2018, as part of Nuremberg Web Week. Volunteers can help with organizing at indieweb.org/2018/Nuremberg. And save the date for IndieWebCamp Berlin, which will be held on November 3rd and 4th. You can learn more and lend a hand organizing at indieweb.org/2018/Berlin. 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, the sixth XOXO Festival returns to Portland, Oregon on September 6th through 9th. Registrations are no longer available, but some IndieWeb folks will be in attendance, so look for discussions about the event in the IndieWeb chat. --- 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. Jason McIntosh, at fogknife.com, published "Rejecting the Post-web era while embracing The Future". In it, McIntosh pushes back against a post by Nick Montfort, which asserts that we are in a "post-web" era of corporate-controlled social media platforms from which we cannot escape. --- And now, a selection of this week's updates from indieweb.org. # New Community Members Niklas Jordan joins us from niklasjordan.com. Niklas is a UX architect who lives in Northern Germany. He is also involved in the Sustainable Web and TechForGood Community. Heinz Wittenbrink joins us from wittenbrink.net. Heinz is a blogger and teacher currently based in Graz, Austria. sanvero joins us from sanvero.de, saying: "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." 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 "Dunking" is a term for an abuse of quote posts, taking someone's post out of context in order to mock the post or denigrate the poster. Though popularized by Twitter's quote tweet feature, "screenshot dunking" - using a captured image of the post you're dunking on - is also popular. Jamie Bartlett, writing for unherd.com, posted "How social media makes fascists of us all". In it, Bartlett points to design choices in platforms like Twitter which are meant to drive engagement. Bartlett notes that these features also drive tribalism and mindless action, among other major symptoms of fascism. # Services and Organizations Facebook users who had been cross-posting their content from Twitter had a nasty, if brief, surprise this week when all of those posts disappeared from Facebook. After recent API changes made the Twitter cross-posting app useless, Twitter requested that Facebook delete the app from their platform. In doing so, Facebook also deleted all posts created by the app. Facebook has since restored the deleted posts. In silo quits this week, Leo Laporte announced that he has deactivated his Twitter and Tumblr accounts, following his recent exit from Instagram and Facebook. Instead, he'll be posting to his own site, and on micro.blog, Mastodon, Flickr, and Smugmug. And as users move to Mastodon, some are finding that they are running into the same - or worse - problems with blocking, stalking, and inconsistent moderation. The "Mastodon" page has been updated with a link to a Twitter thread by user @adrienneleigh highlighting several instances of harassment, intimidation, and more by individual instance administrators and core developers. # IndieWeb Development Benjamin Supnik, at hacksoflife.blogspot.com, encourages developers to "Solve Less General Problems". Citing similar pieces by other bloggers, Supnik says, in short, quote: "it's more valuable to have a smaller design that's easy to refactor than to have a larger design with abstractions that you don't use; the abstractions are a maintenance tax." Other new terms on indieweb.org this week include: Thread Reader App and schema.org. 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.