Hello and welcome to This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition, for the week of July 8th - 14th, 2023. https://indieweb.org/this-week/2023-07-14.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 12th with virtual meetups at 7pm for Europe and London time and 6pm for US/Pacific. Discussion topics included feed readers, recipes, guestbooks, the Voyager golden record, and more. You can find photos and links to notes from the meetups in the newsletter. Join us again on July 26th 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 Portland for the Software Freedom Conservancy's FOSSY conference this weekend, check out IndieWeb 101: owning your content and identity on Saturday July 15th at 3:30pm US/Pacific. Videos will be made available sometime after the event. You can learn more at 2023.fossy.us. 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. Fluffy, at publ.plaidweb.site, posted "Webmention.js 0.5.5 released - important security update!". This update fixes a cross-site scripting vulnerability in one of the most popular ways to display Webmentions on a static website. If your site uses webmention.js, please update as soon as possible. Simone at minutestomidnight.co.uk posted "Human Connection". In it, he discusses using web analytics tools not for traffic counting, but to discover "backlinks". Finding posts that strangers have written, inspired by and linking to his own writing, is a kind of human connection on the web that he appreciates. The Haven Blog, at havenweb.org, published "Bluesky, Mastodon, SSB, and the Social Networks of New Protocols". In it, they discuss some differences between community and the technology that supports that community. As a platform grows to take in more public discourse, the early community there inevitably dies. Instead of continuing to build around public discourse, they suggest taking more formal approaches to community, including making "social media" private by default. Tracy, at tracydurnell.com posted "Barriers to a more social IndieWeb". In it, she builds on recent discussions around IndieWeb social norms and details some challenges for discovering or creating a single set of norms for site-to-site interactions. Some examples include difficulties with setting up and maintaining Webmentions on a personal site, determining what types of content or responses should be public, and how differences in implementations make it difficult to know what to expect when sending a mention to another site. Ryan, at snarfed.org, pusted "Bridgy Fed status update". In it, he discusses his in-progress work on a new "protocol-independent activity router", a kind of new "brain" for the service which he hopes will make it easier to bridge between platforms and protocols. James, at jamesg.blog, posted "Use case-driven standards development". In it, he discusses a personal approach to solving technical problems while also avoiding creating new competing standards. Specifically, he asks himself two questions: "What is my use case?" and "Is there a way that I can enable this behaviour within existing features?". --- And now, a selection of this week's updates from indieweb.org. # New Community Members Ross joins us from r0ss.me. Ross describes himself as a geek, thinker, open source committer, calisthenics practitioner, language learner, and more. J. King joins us from jkingweb.ca. He is a Canadian programmer and principal author of The Advanced RSS Environment, a free-software online newsfeed aggregator. doesnm joins us from doesnm.cc. He is interested in Python and Javascript and describes himself as a sh*tcoder from Russia. 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 Planning continues for future virtual IndieWeb pop-up meetings. Current popular topics include Microformats and Micropub. Visit the /pop-up page to register your interest and availability, or to propose a pop-up idea of your own. # Services and Organizations The /Threads page was updated with links to several pieces criticising Facebook's newly launched Twitter-competitor, including accessibility issues with the app and the depressingly abysmal atmosphere. Because, of course. It's awful. # IndieWeb Development Community member Tantek added some brainstorming notes questioning the value of explicit "follow" interactions between sites or within silos. He also suggests that following should be person-centric instead of feed- or silo-centric. Check out the /follow page for more and to add your own thoughts. 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.