Hello and welcome to This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition, for the week of August 11th - 17th, 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 Wednesday, August 22nd, for another Homebrew Website Club. Meetings have been confirmed so far for Nürnberg, London, Baltimore, and San Francisco, along with a virtual Homebrew Website Club meeting at Central European Time. 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, Electromagnetic Field will be held on August 31st through September 2nd in Eastnor, UK. Electromagnetic Field is a non-profit camping festival for hackers, artists, geeks, and more, and it appears that some members of the IndieWeb community will be in attendance. Also related, 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. Kicks Condor, at kickscondor.com, posted "Indieweb.xyz: Difficult or Silo?". In it, Condor discusses recent and upcoming changes to the indieweb.xyz discussion board, which is powered by people syndicating posts from their own sites. --- And now, a selection of this week's updates from indieweb.org. # Community and Concepts "Losing followers" is a common problem when migrating an account from one server or service to another. This problem has been popularly cited as a reason to stay on social silos like Twitter, but is an issue even for federated social networks like Mastodon, where your identity is tied to a domain name that someone else controls. # Services and Organizations In continued protest against Twitter's terms of service and enforcement policies, many users left on August 17th in an event known as #Deactiday. Some notable Twitter quitters this week included Mark Frauenfelder, Ezra J. Spier, and Susan Fowler. Podcasters looking to get paid by their listeners may want to add a rel=payment link in their episode descriptions. Developer Marco Arment added a feature to the Overcast podcast player to discover these links and display a payment button. Podcast hosting services Transistor.fm quickly added support for these links, but it should be possible to add them to episodes on any hosting service. On the topic of hosting feeds, podcast host Acast is under fire after bungling the feed redirects of a former customer, Rose Eveleth of the Flash Forward podcast. Rather than using permanent redirects, which would notify directory services like Apple to update the URL for podcast feed, Acast used a temporary redirect. When Acast eventually shut down the supposedly unused feed, Flash Forward lost tens of thousands of subscribers. Matt Haughey, at a.wholelottanothing.org, posted "Things That Baffle Me about WordPress in 2018". In it, Haughey details several glitches that he encountered with a new WordPress.com Premium site and the corresponding WordPress app for iOS. The comments on the post contain an interesting discussion between Haughey and several developers who work on these exact products. # IndieWeb Development Webmentions are only one way for sites to send notifications about posts that link to one another. A much older method is using the HTTP referrer header from incoming site visitors to see where they come from. Refback for WordPress is a plugin by David Shanske which allows you to display these "refback" links as reactions on your posts. Interest is growing in making IndieWeb personal sites successfully interact with federated social sites like Mastodon. The ActivityPub page has been updated with details on how to notify users on ActivityPub-based sites when you post a response to them on your own site. Other new terms on indieweb.org this week include: account migration, stickers, IRSSI, Wrimini, Sched, chronological timeline, chronological feed, dweb, and remote content policy. 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.