Hello and welcome to This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition, for the week of January 28th - February 3rd, 2023. https://indieweb.org/this-week/2023-02-03.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 1st with virtual meetups at 7pm for Europe and London and again at 6pm for US/Pacific time. Discussion topics included micropub properties, git hosting, cookies, waffles, coffee, and more. You can find photos and links to notes from the meetups in the newsletter. Join us again on February 8th 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. --- # Podcasts Episode 549 of the Shop Talk podcast features an interview with Ben Ubois, founder of the Feedbin RSS service. In it, hosts Dave and Chris discuss with Ben the history of Feedbin, the state of feeds on the web, social features for feed readers, and more. --- And now, a selection of this week's updates from indieweb.org. ## New Community Members Jason joins us from starrwulfe.xyz. Jason's site is a digital garden, where he keeps articles, notes, bookmarks, and more. It's connected to other web sites by way of Webmention and ActivityPub. Brett joins us from bcost.site. Brett is using Jekyll to put together his first web page since the 1990s. He's currently working on site design and automation for publishing. Felix joins us from spieltagsgedichte.de. Translated in English as "matchday poems", the site is a collection of German-language poetry for each German-association football game in the 2022-2023 season. 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 Tags can be a great way to organize related posts on your site, but as a collection grows, how do you organize the tags themselves? One approach is a /tags_page which shows all tags in use on a site. If you have a tags page, or your own alternatives, be sure to add your site as an example on the wiki. ## Services and Organizations Social media silo and unceasing dumpster fire Twitter announced this week plans to deny all free access to their APIs beginning February 9th. Speculation about the change is rampant, made more chaotic by the CEO's contradictory posts about expected pricing, requirements, and more. Of particular concern is how the upcoming API changes will affect "Log in with Twitter", a service for third-party sites and services to allow users to sign in with their Twitter account. If you use "Log in with Twitter" on any site, now is the time to switch to an alternative sign-in method. Photo-posting silo and superfund site of mistargeted mens fashion ads Instagram has a long history of blocking access from outside its official apps. Recently, members of the IndieWeb community who use third-party tools to read their Instagram feeds are finding their accounts mysteriously suspended. With an arduous process required to get the account reinstated. ## IndieWeb Development Attention-hoarding social sites have normalized the addictive /infinite_scroll design pattern. While /pagination is an overall alternative approach, a simple UI with a button to load more posts can be a quick - and more accessible - alternative. Webmention and ActivityPub allow compatible sites to share and syndicate content, but often don't specify constraints on what that content should be. When it comes to HTML, that has led to a proliferation of partially-compatible implementations for post display. The /sanitize page is forming a collection of formats and attributes supported by software like Mastodon and services like micro.blog. Other concepts with new pages this week include: unfollow all, GoToSocial, and footnote. Follow the links in the newsletter to learn more about, and add detail to, these 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.