Hello and welcome to This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition, for the week of July 1st - 7th, 2023. https://indieweb.org/this-week/2023-07-07.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 July 1st for a Galactic Bonus meetup, as well as July 5th with a regular virtual meetup at 7pm for Europe and London time. Discussion topics included icons, pop-up planning, results of the June blog carnival, and more. You can find photos and links to notes from the meetups in the newsletter. Join us again on July 12th 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. Mark your calendars for 9am US/Pacific on July 29th as James hosts Build a Website in an Hour. Bring an idea to this virtual co-working session and share the results of an hour of work! On July 30th, Send a Friend a Webmention! Coincidentally the same day as International Friendship Day, this non-traditional IndieWeb activity encourages you to use your personal site as your social hub on the web for comments, likes, emoji and gif replies, and more. Planning is underway for an IndieWebCamp Nuremburg for 2023. Tentatively scheduled for October 28th and 29th, it will be adjacent to the border:none conference, which is celebrating its 10 year anniversary. --- 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. Amin at eftegarie.com posted "Every person on the planet should have their own website", a call to write in public and leave a digital legacy on the web. Sara, at sarajaksa.eu, posted "The First Stab at the IndieWeb Interaction Social Norms". In it, she recaps some recent discussions about norms for interactions between IndieWeb sites. As an example, on Instagram leaving a string of comments on several old posts would be considered creepy behavior. What discussions can the community have now about potentially unexpected and unsettling mentions and replies? Sara also posted "Carnival of IndieWeb June 2023 Edition - IndieWeb and Cooking Roundup post". In it she links to the six submissions she received for the June blog carnival, each of which explores a different personal relationship to cooking or food. James at jamesg.blog posted "IndieWeb Carnival July 2023: Moments of Joy". In it, he invites anyone to post on your personal site about a recent moment of joy and include it in the entries for the month via Webmention, or by sharing a link in the IndieWeb chat or at a Homebrew Website Club meetup. Ben, at werd.io, published "Licensing site content using a text file". In it, he proposes license.txt, an extension to the now-standard robots.txt file which informs crawlers and bots which parts of a site they are allowed to index. Inspired by recent backlash against the wholesale use of public web content to train large language models, license.txt would include information on how website content is allowed to be used. sizeof(cat) at sizeof.cat posted "Discover personal websites". In it they call on folks to reach out to "unique, fringy, weird and interesting websites", and have included links to several resources to help you get started. --- And now, a selection of this week's updates from indieweb.org. # New Community Members 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 The IndieWeb encourages you to POSSE. That is, to Publish on your Own Site and Syndicate Elsewhere, like social silos. Earlier concepts include POSE - Publish Once (maybe to one particular silo), Syndicate Everywhere, and COPE - Create Once, Publish Everywhere, often via copy and paste. # Services and Organizations Harvard Blogs, which allows blogging under the harvard.edu domain, is scheduled to shut down on July 31st of this year. The announcement marks 20 years of hosting blogs, and cites organizational changes and the ubiquity of blogging platforms as reasons to end the service. The shutdown, originally scheduled for June 30th, was extended to allow members time to move or archive their content. Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, launched Threads, a Twitter competitor built on existing Instagram accounts and social graph, and featuring an algorithmic timeline. Their plans to open up federation via ActivityPub has created concerns, as the number of Threads users is already in the double-digit millions, overwhelming the existing "Fediverse". 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.