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!