This Week in the IndieWeb

January 5-12, 2024

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

Upcoming Events

From events.indieweb.org:



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.



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 Listening To

From huffduffer.com/tags/indieweb:

Moderation and Migration for a Better Social Web, with Fediverse Leader Tim Chambers

What We’re Reading

From news.indieweb.org:

Bookmarked Data Liberation in 2024
by wordpress.org on
Enshittification and user domestication
by seirdy.one on
a post
by snarfed.org on
Bridgy Fed now supports all web sites! You can now use it from the fediverse to see and follow any site, regardless of whether it has microformats2, webmentions, or WebFinger. Bridgy Fed extracts as much profile info as it can, generates fediverse posts from Atom and RSS feeds, and so on. Web sites start out bridged to the fediverse as [domain]@web.brid.gy. For example, to see new nature.com articles in your fediverse feed, follow @nature.com@web.brid.gy. And as always, if you have a web ...
Bookmarked What PWA Can Do Today on IndieNews
by whatpwacando.today on
Reducing Native Comment Spam
by gregorlove.com on
The State of the Independent Web 2022: Updated 2024
by indieseek.xyz/author/administrator on

New Community Members

From IndieWeb Wiki: New User Pages:

User:Tnbd.xyz

Greg Lopez Pronouns: He/Him/His Greg Lopez is a blind dude who hails from the suburbs south of Seattle, Washington & shares his unique perspective on the world around him via his blog titled TNBD (The Nerdy Blind Dude). https://tnbd.xyz Chat Nickname: tnbd Elsewhere: Facebook GitHub Gravatar Twitch Contact: Discord Matrix Mastodon

Created by Tnbd.xyz on Friday and edited 2 more times

User:Enindu.com

Created by Enindu.com on Monday and edited 1 more time

User:Lumen.pink

Created by Lumen.pink on Sunday and edited 1 more time

Top New Wiki Pages

From IndieWeb Wiki: New Pages:

easier

Making it easier to setup and use your own IndieWeb presence is a goal of the IndieWeb community, with minimum maintenance, and helps us focus efforts on everything from providing more encouraging and accessible paths to getting started, to making sure developer-centric approaches like SSGs are clearly documented as such, and in general improving the usability of the IndieWeb wiki itself (help wikify and garden).

Created by [tantek] on Monday with 10 more edits by tantek.com and loqi.me

ISSN

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) is an identification number for periodicals that at least two IndieWeb community members have on their websites.

Created by capjamesg on Tuesday with 7 more edits by jamesg.blog, loqi.me, tantek.com and www.ciccarello.me

Argument Machine

The Argument Machine is a post by Derek Powazek describing how Twitter’s UI appears designed to cause and amplify arguments, and lessons from that analysis can be used for better design of commenting/replying/threading systems, including on the IndieWeb.

Created by [tantek] on Friday and edited 3 more times

2024/CreateSpringClean

Created by Jamesg.blog on Monday and edited 2 more times

Vercel

Vercel is a serverless web app host in the vein of Netlify and Heroku that allows you to deploy static and dynamic websites.

Created by [snarfed] on Tuesday and edited 1 more time

New Event Notes

From IndieWeb Wiki: New Pages:

Homebrew Website Club Europe/London: 2024-01-10

Homebrew Website Club - Nuremberg/Germany: 2024-01-10

Top Edited Wiki Pages

From IndieWeb Wiki: Recent Changes: