​Join us to learn about this brave new world of decentralized social media and why it promises a better way for consumers, creators, brands, and even democracy itself.

​Located just three blocks from the Austin Convention Center, at the Speakeasy (412 Congress Ave.), the Fediverse House creates a space for strategic conversations, networking opportunities, and refreshments throughout the day. You’ll hear from visionaries, builders, and open-source advocates from places like Bluesky, Threads, and the Social Web Foundation.

Please RSVP to this event as a whole and/or any specific segments you plan on attending. While this is an official event, badges are not required.

​Sunday, March 9

​Sunday, March 9

​Accelerating Innovation Across the Open Social Web (Part 1) / RSVP

​9am: Fediverse House at SXSW is open! Stop by for coffee and a morning of inspirational talks on the future of social and the internet.

9:30am: Welcome from Mike McCue, CEO and Co-founder, Flipboard

9:45am: "A Better Web Is Possible" with Molly White, Researcher, Software Engineer and Writer

​10am - 11am: David Imel’s "Fediverse Corner" with Mike Masnick, CEO and Founder, Techdirt, and Board of Directors, Bluesky; Evan Prodromou, Co-author ActivityPub and Research Director, Social Web Foundation; and Peter Cottle, Software Engineer, Threads

11:30am - 1:30pm: Networking session, presented by the Social Web Foundation 

​2pm - 3pm: Developer meetup and book signing with ActivityPub Co-author Evan Prodromou / RSVP

​Accelerating Innovation Across the Open Social Web (Part 2) / RSVP

4:30pm: Pre-chat Bluesky cocktail

​5pm - 5:45pm: Fireside chat with Bluesky CTO Paul Frazee and Mike McCue 

​6pm - 7pm: "Dot Social Live" with David Imel, Co-host, Waveform podcast, and Mike McCue

The Open Social Social / RSVP

​7pm - 10pm: Evening party — refreshments and tunes with your new fedi friends 

​Monday, March 10 

​The New Playbook / RSVP

9am - 9:45am: “From Walled Gardens to the Open Social Web: The Next Evolution of Brand Storytelling” with Gina Michnowicz, CEO and CCO at The Craftsman Agency

10am - 10:45am: “Creators and the Fediverse,” with Peter Cottle, Software Engineer, Threads, and Jim Louderback, Editor and CEO, Inside the Creator Economy, moderated by Shira Lazar, Creator and Founder of What's Trending

​11am - 11:45am: “Building Communities Across the Social Web,” with Rose Wang, COO, Bluesky, Leila Brillson, CMO, The Onion, and Andy Piper, Developer Relations Lead, Mastodon, moderated by Mia Quagliarello, Head of Creator Community, Flipboard

​12:30pm - 1pm: Demo of Surf*, a new kind of browser unifying the social web, with Mike McCue
* To get access before SXSW, go here and use SURFSXSW as the referral code.

​Publishers in the Fediverse / RSVP

​3pm: Fireside chat with Cory Doctorow, Journalist and Sci-Fi Author, and Mike McCue 

​4pm - 4:45pm: “Publishers: Audience and Autonomy” with 404 Media’s Jason Koebler, Texas Observer’s Kit O’Connell, and PMC's Parker Ortolani, moderated by Mia Quagliarello, Head of Creator Community, Flipboard

​404 Media Takeover and Evening Party  / RSVP

5pm - 5:45pm: "Generative AI Is Eating the Internet": 404 Media’s Sam Cole and Jason Koebler and Blood in the Machine’s Brian Merchant discuss how AI slop is taking over the internet, and how humans can fight back.

6pm - 6:45 pm: "Indie Media Happy Hour and Q&A": A free-flowing discussion about how to set up and run an independent media outlet featuring 404 Media and friends 

​7pm - 10pm: Evening party hosted by your friends at 404 Media