2024/Berlin/queer
How to make a web queerer? was a session at IndieWebCamp Berlin 2024.
Participants
Notes
Topic introduction: Making the (indie)web more welcoming to different people, especially focusing more on non-developer blogs and sites and making them feel welcome (?)
- Question: What is meant by minority?
- Rephrasing of statement: making it more inclusive of any type of person; being welcoming to all topics pertaining to the web/indieweb
- Different cultures in different web communities with various focuses
- No community is inclusive of everyone
- Inclusivity in the way of accessibility on the web
- many parts of the web completely inaccessible to some people
- ways of being more accessible on the web: including alternatives for people (no one size fits all), making navigation accessible, many different approaches (too deep a topic to discuss completely here perhaps?)
- https://inclusivedesignprinciples.info
- Welcoming beyond technical accessibility? -> experience should be of equal value but cannot be the same
- accessibility should not be an afterthought (trying to fit in accessible principles in post may not lead to a truly equal experience)
- Where does the indieweb end/begin -- Community of people participating in events or anyone who is a fan of the idea/has their own site?
- How to communicate that non-tech sites or less code focused sites and topics are also appreciated, if this just happens to be what most people are interested in within a group
- Diversity of topics for pop-ups, such as FreSH or carnivals
- More specific/clearer approach of code of conduct (eg: rule against sexism could be maliciously interpreted by people who see some feminist rhetoric as being "hate against men" being against the rules)
- could be very hard, focus should perhaps be on how the rules are applied by moderators
- The easiest way to avoid this is to gatekeep "entry" to the community, but this is probably not the way
- private vs public content within communities
- email instead of webmention/public responses
- self-censorship on the internet (?)
- focusing on technical writing to appease employers
- content that one doesn't want associated with their name