Hello and welcome to This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition, for the week of February 25th - March 3rd, 2023. https://indieweb.org/this-week/2023-03-03.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 March 1st with virtual meetups at 7pm for Europe and London time, and at 6pm for US/Pacific time. Discussion topics included wiki cleanups, methods for mobile coding, whether birds are real, and more. You can find photos and links to notes from the meetups in the newsletter. Join us again on March 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. If you're in or near New York City this weekend, you may have time to register for Take Back the Internet: Deploy your personal site and join the indie web. Starting Sunday March 5th at 2pm, and hosted by Brooklyn hackerspace NYC Resistor, this three hour workshop will introduce participants to the IndieWeb and teach a simple approach to publishing your own website. --- # Podcasts Episode 39 of the Originality Podcast warns: Do Not Put All Your Eggs in Twitter's Basket. In it, hosts Aleen and Tempest discuss the decline of Twitter, some of the impacts on creatives who depend on it for reach and community, and some ideas for what to do next. --- 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. Nora, at nora.codes, published The Fediverse is Already Dead. In it, she points out several ways that that the term "the Fediverse" is misleading, and encourages people to instead refer to specific online communities, rather than the technology they use to communicate. James, at jamesg.blog, published "Send a Trackback in Two Lines of Code". In it, he announces an updated version of his IndieWeb Utils library, including this new feature to support the somewhat antiquated Trackback protocol. --- 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 According to the calendar, though not necessarily the weather, it's nearly spring in the northern hemisphere. Now seems to be a good time to do some spring cleaning on the IndieWeb wiki. For example, the /challenges page has been updated with somewhat recent posts from folks frustrated by their attempts at integrating IndieWeb building blocks into their own sites. Other wiki cleanup ideas include documenting /site-deaths and /lost_sites, and gardening IndieWeb examples from folks whose personal sites are no longer online. # Services and Organizations Hashtags are a common way for social media silo users to aggregate related content. With the recent growth of Mastodon and other ActivityPub-powered federated sites, the questions of whether, and how, to organize tags and tagged posts between sites has been raised again. By extension, this raises the questions of how tags and aggregation work between IndieWeb sites. Do you use hashtags in posts on your site? Be sure to document your example on the wiki. # IndieWeb Development Are you looking for the next hot web framework to maximize your developer experience while delivering fast and lightweight applications to your end users? Before you construct your build stack based on popularity scores and job listings, try semantic HTML, plain CSS, and /Vanilla_JS. 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.