Hello and welcome to This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition, for the week of June 10th - 16th, 2023. https://indieweb.org/this-week/2023-06-16.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 June 14th with virtual meetups at 7pm for Europe and London time and 6pm for US/Pacific time. Discussion topics included website carbon footprints, the Reddit moderators strike, blogging in multiple languages, private posting, and more. You can find photos and links to notes from the meetups in the newsletter. Join us again on June 21st for the next Homebrew Website Club, with a virtual meetup scheduled at 7pm for Europe and London 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. 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. Ben at werd.io published "Web 2.0 may finally be democratized". In it he discusses the uneasy balance between social media platforms which are built and paid for by business interests, but which only function when enough people collectively use those platforms. When business needs overshadow user needs, users will reach a tipping point and flee the site, as with Twitter, or push back in protest, as with the moderators strike on Reddit. --- And now, a selection of this week's updates from indieweb.org. # New Community Members Daryl joins us from darylsun.page. She has multiple sites powered by omg.lol, and runs the weblog.lol web ring. tei joins us from bloodripelives.com. They're a writer, musician, gymnast, and second-career electrical engineering student. 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 Inspired by discussion at a recent Homebrew Website Club, an IndieWeb blog carnival is under way. Make a post on your blog about this month's topic, cooking, and submit it to host Sara Jakša to see it included in her post at the end of the month. For further details, see the /indieweb-carnival page. # Services and Organizations Thousands of Reddit moderators began making their communities' content inaccessible early this month. They're acting in solidarity as part of a "going dark" protest of the social forum silo's recent API pricing changes, which have had the effect of killing off popular apps like Apollo, which are created by third-party developers. The protests have continued and in some cases intensified after Reddit CEO Steve Huffman made public statements denouncing these unpaid volunteers. # IndieWeb Development Amidst a bumpy beta rollout and a lack of safety tools and moderation, Bluesky continues to develop the AT Protocol, which they hope will foster a decentralized social web that allows users to freely pick and choose who hosts their data, whose algorithms filter the posts they see, and more. IndieWeb-friendly services like Bridgy Fed and micro.blog are working on support for the AT Protocol, with the expectation that an ecosystem may spring up outside of its corporate origins. 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.