Hello and welcome to This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition, for the week of April 21st-27th, 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 Tuesday, May 1st, in Baltimore, and on May 2nd in Nurnberg, London, or San Francisco for the next regularly scheduled Homebrew Website Club meeting. 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 Dates have been announced for IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf, scheduled to take place May 5th and 6th at sipgate in Düsseldorf, Germany, just before the beyond tellerand event. Learn more and register now at indieweb.org/2018/Düsseldorf. Save the dates for the 2018 IndieWeb Summit, which will take place on Tuesday June 26th and Wednesday June 27th in Portland, Oregon. The two-day summit will be a part of the larger week-long Open Source Bridge conference. Organizers and volunteers are invited to contribute at indieweb.org/2018. 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, this weekend, on April 28th William Hale will present an IndieWeb 101 session at Linux Fest Northwest, in Bellingham, Washington. --- 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. After four years of syndicating posts, RSVPs, comments, and likes to Facebook, Bridgy Publish for Facebook will be shutting down in August. Creator Ryan Barrett announced that new limitations of the Facebook API will make it impossible for Bridgy Publish to create new posts to the silo over the next several months. Once that happens, folks who automatically syndicate posts and responses to Facebook from their own site may have to resort to manual posting. Tom Woodward, at bionicteaching.com, published a post titled "Social Media Jujutsu". In it, the author makes some suggestions, quote, "to take advantage of the good aspects of these tools/communities while opposing some of their attempts at manipulation". For xample, using browser plugins to disable distracting sharing metrics, invasive ads, and comments. Aaron Parecki published a post on GoDaddy's Garage blog titled "An IndieWeb reader: My new home on the internet". In it, Parecki notes that RSS readers have not kept pace with the social response features of social silos like Twitter and Facebook, and that to compete they will need to evolve. To that end, he introduces IndieWeb readers Together, Indigenous, and Monocle, which bring richer content and inline interactions thanks to IndieWeb building blocks like microformats2, Micropub, and the developing Microsub specification. --- And now, a selection of this week's updates from indieweb.org. # New Community Members Federico klez Culloca joins us from klezlab.it. Federico is a full-stack web developer, hackerspace co-founder, free software and privacy advocate, and net enthusiast. Arne Govaerts joins us from tglo.be. Arne is a Belgian IT engineering students who believes in optimization, Open Source and Free Software, and to research the best, existing solution for a problem. John Cooke joins us from marwynandjohn.uk. John is a retired astronomer who has been involved with websites at work and at home for a while, and now has time to play with the sites he's responsible for. Stephen Rushe joins us from deeden.co.uk. Stephen drinks tea, loves cats, and provides sarcasm-as-a-service. He is also responsible for Cricsheet, a project to provide ball-by-ball data for cricket. Adrian Tritschler joins us from ajft.org. Adrian's favorite things are red wine, blue glass, white noise, and black coffee. 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 Greg McVerry has begun a "WordPress/Onboarding" guide containing research on users, research protocols with links to data, and a work-in-progress list of items needed to make it easier for new folks to get started using WordPress to host their IndieWeb sites. On the flip side of new sites, a "former projects" page has been started to gather projects that may have been used by IndieWeb community members in the past but which have since become abandoned, unmaintained, or unavailable. Moving dead projects to this page preserves their history, while allowing references to projects elsewhere on the site to stay more relevant and up to date. # Services and Organizations Ticket selling silo Eventbrite caused a stir this week when Twitter user Barney Dellar noticed a clause in the company's US and UK terms of service indicating that they reserved the right to attend and film any event posted on the site and use the footage for any purpose. Eventbrite removed the controversial clause from their terms of use on April 22nd. New York Magazine's Select All published a piece by Noah Kulwin titled "I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the World a Worse Place". In it, Kulwin interviews Dan McComas, former head of product at Reddit, on the problems of harassment and hate spreading on social networks like Reddit and Twitter. Among the reasons McComas sites as driving the problems are a "growth at all costs" mindset from investors and hands-off approaches to community management. # IndieWeb Development Photo sharing silo Instagram launched a new feature this week allowing users of the Facebook-owned platform to request and download an archive of their data on the site. According to some early tests, the archives contain photos in folders sorted by month, as well as comments, likes, contacts, and similar information encoded in JSON format. Other new terms added to indieweb.org this week include: Unread, FreshRSS, "microformats2 JSON", and Glossary. Check the links in the newsletter for more information about, or to add new 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.