Hello and welcome to This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition, for the week of March 11th - 17th, 2023. https://indieweb.org/this-week/2023-03-17.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 March 15th with virtual meetups at 7pm for Europe and London time, and at 6pm for US/Pacific time. Discussion topics included personal large language models, patchy response networks on Mastodon, Micropub advocacy, and more. You can find photos and links to notes from the meetups in the newsletter. Join us again on March 2nd 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. On March 16th, Better Platform hosted A People's History of Twitter. The online kickoff event brought together communities that relied on Twitter to share stories, perspectives, possibilities, and ways to use the power of community to shape what comes next. Learn more at betterplatform.net. 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, mark your calendar for March 29th and 30th for FediForum 2023. This two-day virtual unconference will have demos, discussions, and problem-solving sessions with the goal of improving the ActivityPub-powered federated social media ecosystem. --- And now, a selection of this week's updates from indieweb.org. 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 beyond tellerrand is a single-track event where creativity and technology meet, and a great companion for past IndieWebCamps in Germany. April 17th and 18th will be the first beyond telerand of 2023, and it's less than a month away. If you're thinking of attending, be sure to register your interest on the wiki and in the chat to help make it the first IndieWebCamp of 2023, as well. # Services and Organizations IndieWeb-friendly hosting service micro.blog announced this week that they will be turning on ActivityPub integration for all users. Previously enabled on an opt-in basis, or for new accounts, the change will add many new voices to the Fediverse. Machine learning provider OpenAI has been making news with their offerings for generative art and large language models. Now they're making their way into the IndieWeb, as well. By combining the Embeddings API with recently-reduced pricing on GPT models, IndieWeb community member James has added a chat bot trained to answer questions on his own writing. You can learn more at jamesg.blog/bot. # IndieWeb Development Tags are a common way to organize posts on most websites. However, coordinating and aggregating tags across multiple sites has long been a challenge. IndieWeb community members have been working to improve interoperability of inline hashtags, particularly for IndieWeb powered sites that syndicate to ActivityPub via Bridgy Fed. If you're interested in this feature for your personal site, let us know in the #indieweb-dev channel in the chat. 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.