This Week in the IndieWeb

December 8-15, 2023

Recent Events

From events.indieweb.org/archive:


Join us online in Zoom for demos of personal sites, recent breakthroughs, discussions about the independent web, and meet IndieWeb community members! Homebrew Website club is for all levels and areas of IndieWeb interest, whether curious, creative, coder, or all the above.


HWC Nuremberg is now a regular in-person meeting. We moved from tollwerk to the Fab Lab and welcome anyone interested in personal websites and a distributed web.

Archived notes on the wiki.

Upcoming Events

From events.indieweb.org:

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In San Diego or LA? Join us for the first ever IndieWebCamp San Diego for two days of independent open distributed web talks, breakouts, and hack sessions. Bring your website or setup a new domain on the spot. Pack your sunscreen, flip-flops, and shorts because we’ll be at a wonderful outdoor venue in the high 60s to mid 70s, sunny with scattered clouds all day.


Join us online in Zoom for demos of personal sites, recent breakthroughs, discussions about the independent web, and meet IndieWeb community members! Homebrew Website club is for all levels and areas of IndieWeb interest, whether curious, creative, coder, or all the above.




HWC Nuremberg is a in-person meeting for everybody who is interested in setting up a personal website and talk about web-related issues.

What We’re Reading

From news.indieweb.org:

Reclaiming the Web with a Personal Reader
by olano.dev on
Internet Usage
by foreverliketh.is on

New Community Members

From IndieWeb Wiki: New User Pages:

User:Peterkaminski.wiki

Created by Peterkaminski.wiki on Saturday and edited 3 more times

User:Miloslavhomer.cz

Created by Miloslavhomer.cz on Friday

Top New Wiki Pages

From IndieWeb Wiki: New Pages:

Data Dialogues

Data Dialogues (AKA Data Dialogue Series) are three hour interactive and interdisciplinary workshops hosted by Meta Platforms, focused on privacy challenges in rapidly evolving product areas, such as Threads and ActivityPub.

Created by [tantek] on Sunday with 13 more edits by tantek.com and loqi.me

location tag

A location tag (sometimes called a geo tag) is a deliberate visible indicator on a post indicating the location that it is about, either directly in the post from its author, or sometimes as a reply to the post.

Created by Tantek.com on Sunday and edited 7 more times

web component

web component is a reusable HTML element defined using the Web Components API, and created & used by IndieWeb community members on their own sites.

Created by capjamesg on Tuesday with 5 more edits by jamesg.blog, loqi.me and tantek.com

Meta Platforms

Meta Platforms (or Meta for short) is a corporation formerly named Facebook, that runs several silo services (Facebook, Instagram, Threads, that IndieWeb folks have POSSEd to), a couple of messaging services (Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp), and hosts Data Dialogues in-person events that invite and include outside experts including IndieWeb community participants.

Created by Tantek.com on Sunday and edited 2 more times

Massive Wiki

Massive Wiki is a collection of open source tools for building a wiki website with static files, and is used for at least one IndieWeb site.

Created by Www.ciccarello.me on Monday and edited 1 more time

Accra

Accra is the capital city of Ghana, and has hosted several hybrid in-person/online Homebrew Website Club meetups starting on 2019-03-20 and most recently on 2019-05-01.

Created by Tantek.com on Thursday

goifnetwork.org

goifnetwork.org was the domain used for Homebrew Website Club Accra meetups.

Created by Tantek.com on Thursday

2023/SD/Planning

Planning for IndieWebCamp San Diego 2023.

Created by Gregorlove.com on Tuesday

word of the day

word of the day is a featured word that someone may publish on their website, an IndieWeb example of which is capjamesg's Word of the Day: https://jamesg.blog/assets/wotd.txt.

Created by capjamesg on Tuesday

long word

long word is a word that has more than an arbitrary number of characters, which capjamesg publishes in a list at https://jamesg.blog/assets/longword.txt.

Created by capjamesg on Tuesday

New Event Notes

From IndieWeb Wiki: New Pages:

Homebrew Website Club - The Americas: 2021-06-30, 2021-06-23, 2021-06-16, 2021-06-09, 2021-06-02, 2021-05-26, 2021-05-19, 2021-05-12, 2021-05-05, 2021-04-28, 2021-04-21, 2021-04-14, 2021-04-07

Homebrew Website Club Europe/London: 2023-12-13, 2021-04-28, 2021-04-14

Top Edited Wiki Pages

From IndieWeb Wiki: Recent Changes: