Fediverse House 2025 Wrap-up
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The Social Web Foundation took part in the Fediverse House at South by Southwest on March 9-10 2025. We hosted the networking meetup on day 1, as well as a developer meetup immediately afterwards. We were lucky enough to have Manton Reece present micro.blog and Charles Krempeaux (@reiver) present spacehost.one and robin.live.
I (Evan) also spoke on stage with Peter Cottle of Threads, Mike Masnick of Techdirt, and David Imel. We had a great conversation about the way the Fediverse is developing in 2025, how the different connected networks are interoperating, and what to look forward to in the coming year.
One compelling part of the Fediverse House experience was the outreach to different communities that can benefit from using social web technologies: marketers, creators, and publishers. I think addressing broader sets of needs can be helpful for spreading the technology. The talks were recorded and will be released online over the coming months.
Thanks to everyone who attended or spoke at Fediverse House; especially to Cory Doctorow, who gave a great talk about enshittification and the social web. And a special thanks to the team at Flipboard, including Mike McCue, Marcie McCue, and Mia Quagliarello for making the whole event happen and for inviting SWF to participate. We look forward to even more Fediverse events at SXSW 2026!
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The Social Web Foundation took part in the Fediverse House at South by Southwest on March 9-10 2025. We hosted the networking meetup on day 1, as well as a developer meetup immediately afterwards. We were lucky enough to have Manton Reece present micro.blog and Charles Krempeaux (@reiver) present spacehost.one and robin.live.
I (Evan) also spoke on stage with Peter Cottle of Threads, Mike Masnick of Techdirt, and David Imel. We had a great conversation about the way the Fediverse is developing in 2025, how the different connected networks are interoperating, and what to look forward to in the coming year.
One compelling part of the Fediverse House experience was the outreach to different communities that can benefit from using social web technologies: marketers, creators, and publishers. I think addressing broader sets of needs can be helpful for spreading the technology. The talks were recorded and will be released online over the coming months.
Thanks to everyone who attended or spoke at Fediverse House; especially to Cory Doctorow, who gave a great talk about enshittification and the social web. And a special thanks to the team at Flipboard, including Mike McCue, Marcie McCue, and Mia Quagliarello for making the whole event happen and for inviting SWF to participate. We look forward to even more Fediverse events at SXSW 2026!
great to hear they were recorded and will be released. re the different communities that fedi can benefit, my focus is on the civic potential. that we can someday have our public conversation most influenced by the info and ideas the public thinks deserve attention, not big money media & advertisers. for that to ever be true, we need mass adoption. we need it integrated into all media. and we also need to deal harshly with harassment, but kindly with other stuff we don't like
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The Social Web Foundation took part in the Fediverse House at South by Southwest on March 9-10 2025. We hosted the networking meetup on day 1, as well as a developer meetup immediately afterwards. We were lucky enough to have Manton Reece present micro.blog and Charles Krempeaux (@reiver) present spacehost.one and robin.live.
I (Evan) also spoke on stage with Peter Cottle of Threads, Mike Masnick of Techdirt, and David Imel. We had a great conversation about the way the Fediverse is developing in 2025, how the different connected networks are interoperating, and what to look forward to in the coming year.
One compelling part of the Fediverse House experience was the outreach to different communities that can benefit from using social web technologies: marketers, creators, and publishers. I think addressing broader sets of needs can be helpful for spreading the technology. The talks were recorded and will be released online over the coming months.
Thanks to everyone who attended or spoke at Fediverse House; especially to Cory Doctorow, who gave a great talk about enshittification and the social web. And a special thanks to the team at Flipboard, including Mike McCue, Marcie McCue, and Mia Quagliarello for making the whole event happen and for inviting SWF to participate. We look forward to even more Fediverse events at SXSW 2026!
"I (Evan) also spoke on stage with Peter Cottle of Threads"
Genuine question: did you ask him about Meta now permitting hate speech against vulnerable groups?
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"I (Evan) also spoke on stage with Peter Cottle of Threads"
Genuine question: did you ask him about Meta now permitting hate speech against vulnerable groups?
