Proposal submissions for SXSW EDU 2026 are open to July 27!
If you're working on interesting projects in EDU, therapy, libraries, etc, consider submitting!
I've presented 5x there and am now on the advisory board, so I share my tips to help you get your proposal noticed.
Check out TTRPGkids for today's article covering the conference and submission details!
#TTRPGkids #TTRPG #SXSW #SXSWEDU #EDU #2026
The State of Personal Online Security and Confidentiality | SXSW LIVE with @Mer__edith
https://www.europesays.com/2153519/ King Charles Surprises SXSW London Crowd, Meets Artists and Meghan Markle’s Wedding Choir #BritishRoyalFamily #charles #CharlesIII #England #KingCharles #KingCharlesIii #London #MeghanMarkle #PrinceHarry #RoyalFamilies #RoyalFamily #RoyalNews #SXSW #UnitedKingdom
Von Austin nach London: SXSW-Festival hat Europa-Premiere
Erstmals findet das Innovationsfestival South By Southwest - kurz: SXSW - nicht in Austin, Texas, sondern in London statt. Die Messe für Techies, Künstler und Wissenschaftler zieht sogar königlichen Besuch an. Von Mareike Aden.
Top story: Tejano music superstar Selena Quintanilla has been gone for 30 years, but the late singer’s family is sharing unseen footage of her life in a new documentary, which had its Texas debut at Austin’s Paramount Theater at this year’s SXSW festival. https://www.texasobserver.org/the-love-and-loss-of-the-quintanillas/
From Francesca D'Annunzio in our magazine: Selena y Los Dinos is the first feature-length #documentary about the late singer and her family band. Directed by Mexican-American filmmaker Isabel Castro, the movie offers a tender portrait of the lives, love, and loss of the Quintanilla family. https://www.texasobserver.org/the-love-and-loss-of-the-quintanillas/
Thanks to the open web, it’s more viable than ever for creators to take back ownership and control of their livelihoods. @molly0xfff joined Flipboard CEO @mike at SXSW 2025 to talk about building an ethical, creator-first internet. That fireside chat is now available as a Dot Social episode. Listen in full!
https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/molly-white-sxsw-2025/
At SXSW's Fediverse House, it didn't matter which platform or protocol you preferred — everyone was focused on the singular goal of building a better internet. We've uploaded videos and highlights of key conversations from the event and rounded them up in one post. Here you go:
https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/fediverse-house-2025-roundup/
I’ve worked in tech for many years, and one of the events that has been a constant part of the calendar is SXSW. I remember signing up for Twitter back in 2007 just after I heard about it while chatting in Roo Reynolds’ office at IBM, from a visitor who had been at SXSW where it first took off (referenced in a post back over here).
That was nearly 20 years ago now – and in all of that time, I never had the opportunity to go to SXSW for the tech part1 of the festival…
This year, our friends at Flipboard created a side event they called Fediverse House, as a eye-catching label for a series of talks and sessions around the open social web
[yes, it was broader than the Fediverse; some other platforms and topics were represented, too. It was great to be able to talk about the Fediverse]
Image credit: Brooks Lawson @brooksI was excited to be able to join the event2, and even more so, I was honoured to be asked to join a panel moderated by the wonderful Mia Quagliarello all about building communities on the new social web. I briefly mentioned this trip on the most recent Mastodon blog post update for our updates during March, but I’m now able to include more about the content here.
Here’s the video of our panel discussion, available on Flipboard’s PeerTube – or, on YouTube for those of you that are not yet Fediverse-enabled, or who want to watch on your TV or something 
I hope I did an OK job, representing the good people of the different communities on the Fediverse. I know that my own experience and perspective is not a universal one and I do my best to reflect that when I talk about our spaces.
As well as this panel, the event included some fantastic talks from folks such as Molly White and Cory Doctorow (clips are on PeerTube); it gave me an opportunity to learn more about the ATProto ecosystem from chatting with the nice folks from Bluesky; I was able to meet writers from one of the best publications on the web today, 404 Media; and, it also provided a chance to spend time IRL with friends from the Fediverse – including the excellent Jeff Sikes, and also people I greatly respect and appreciate from WeDistribute, Sean and Damon.
Guitar sculpture titled ‘Vibrancy’ by Craig Hein, located in downtown AustinAnyway… I still haven’t actually been to SXSW 
This year, I did something better than that. Thank you to the Flipboard team for all your work in putting Fediverse House together!
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https://andypiper.co.uk/2025/05/01/fediverse-house-at-sxsw-2025/
We’ve just uploaded a bunch of clips from @davidimel's Fediverse Corner panel at the Fediverse House at SXSW 2025, featuring @evan, @mmasnick and @pcottle
We know the sound is super rough 
but many of these snippets deserve to be heard. Thanks for bearing with us.
They talk about:
- Solving the cold start problem
- Taking control back from billionaires
- The deal with Threads’ federation
- Keeping vibes sacred (and whole)
On March 10, 2025, #Flipboard CEO and Co-founder @mike McCue took to the stage of the #FediverseHouse at #SXSW to show off #Surf, a new kind of #socialbrowser and a way to bring your communities together via #customfeeds
https://flipboard.video/w/rFyohvCiuPMm5ad7MyHy6h
They dont let you play this stuff @#SXSW anymore. Todd Snider 'updates' a #WoodyGuthrie tune... This Land is OUR Land, with a shoutout to CCR.
Lyrics in alt, that go like this:
"Freeway through a reservation
Make way for a brand-new nation
Big ideas, we got brand new plans
Heaven knows we need this land
We're gonna build: big, high, and wide
City streets through countrysides
Chemicals and pesticides
This land is our land..."
#Music #MusicVideo
Not one to hold back, @pluralistic talks to @mike about “enshittification,” explaining why the internet feels broken and what we can do about it. This episode of @dot_social is sharp, funny and provocative. Recorded live at the Fediverse House at SXSW.
Love this clip from @molly0xfff's Fediverse House talk:
"Imagine for a moment a web where communities can create their own spaces while still simultaneously and seamlessly interoperating with others. Think of it like a network of independent neighborhoods, each with its own character and rules, but with shared community spaces, art galleries and libraries.
"In this web, you control what you create and decide how it's shared.The algorithms that shape that experience, they're transparent and customizable. You can peek under the hood or tweak them to your liking or replace them entirely if they're not serving your needs. If you're sharing a space with a group of others and you disagree with how they run that space, you can leave, but you can take your work and your community with you.
"This isn't just a dream. This is already happening. Take Mastodon and the broader Fediverse, where millions of people are building communities that talk to each other across servers and platforms."
Watch @mike give a live demo of Surf at SXSW. Learn what Surf is for, how it brings together content and communities across platforms, and how to make your own custom feed. Audience questions at the end are also 
.
https://flipboard.video/w/rFyohvCiuPMm5ad7MyHy6h
Want to join the waitlist? Sign up here with the referral code DEMO: https://waitlist.surf.social/
Fighting words from @molly0xfff's opening talk at the Fediverse House at SXSW 2025:
“We're facing an existential threat. We need a web that serves people not profit, a web built on protocols, not platforms…It's being built right now by people like you in communities like this one.”
Thank you, developers and denizens of the open social web.
Scale and monoculture are out. Cozy corners and vibes are in.
The full “Building Communities Across the Social Web” panel is out now, featuring @andypiper, @rose.bsky.team and Leila Brillson discussing what it takes to create and sustain healthy online communities in 2025. Recorded live at the Fediverse House at SXSW in March.
“The monoculture is dead…Growing at scale feels so 2015. Growing with purpose is what matters now.” — Leila Brillson, CMO, The Onion, dropping one heckuva truth bomb at our building communities on the social web panel at the Fediverse House at SXSW last month.
Stay tuned for the whole panel, debuting on our Fediverse House PeerTube channel tomorrow:
We’ll be sharing highlights all week on our social channels and at PeerTube, including fireside chats with @pluralistic and @pfrazee.com, clips from @davidimel's Fediverse Corner, and a panel about building communities on the social web featuring @andypiper. Thanks to all who joined us at #FediverseHouse!
