Greg Scallan 

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Today, Bridgy Fed begins expanding beyond microblogging, starting with long-form 📜↔️📃

If your Fediverse blog or website is bridged, your posts will be bridged to the Atmosphere, as standard.site documents!

You'll need to take steps to be indexed by major platforms across the Atmosphere, and we've outlined them in the post and our docs: https://blog.anew.social/long-form-comes-to-bridgy-fed/

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Long-Form Comes To Bridgy Fed

Up until now, Bridgy Fed has only supported the bridging of microblogging content. Even when we bridged articles from the web or from Article types in ActivityPub, ATProtocol-based microblogs would only receive a link to the article rather than the content of the long-form post. One of the main reasons

A New Social

A slick new phishing-as-a-service offering demonstrates just how easily a username+password and a one-time token can be phished. Dubbed "Starkiller," the service uses cleverly disguised links to load the target brand's real website, and then acts as a relay between the victim and the legitimate site -- forwarding the victim's username, password and multi-factor authentication code to the legitimate site and returning its responses.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/02/starkiller-phishing-service-proxies-real-login-pages-mfa/

#phishing #MFA #starkiller

My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions: includes fediverse predctions focuesed on work being done by: @dansup @surf @Mastodon @piefedadmin @ghostexplore @rimu @activitypub.blog @anewsocial @fedify @fed.brid.gy @altstore See what you think. What did I miss? https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/12/23/my-open-social-web-predictions.html
My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions - Tim Chambers

Predictions for 2026 include growth forecasts for various social media platforms, advancements in federated technologies, and anticipated shifts in how …

Tim Chambers
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Trakt Web

This morning’s Wikipedia #history rabbit hole: reading about the Darién gap, which I’ve always been fascinated by (and recently highlighted in #Pluribus) I learned about the Kingdom of Scotland’s mad plan ‘the Darien scheme’ (woefully unaware of the climate and tropical diseases) which sought to colonise that area in 1698.
It killed almost all the settlers, nearly bankrupted the country, and highly influenced them signing the Acts of Union that led to Great Britain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darien_scheme

Darien scheme - Wikipedia

➡️ My 2025 Open Social Web Prediction Score Card: before I try my hand at predictions for the Open Social Web in 2026, I try to do a sober look back at my 2025 predictions and how they did.
See what you think.

https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/12/20/my-open-social-web-prediction.html

My 2025 Open Social Web Prediction Score Card - Tim Chambers

A year ago, I made a set of bold predictions about where the Open Social Web was headed. Now, at the end of 2025, it’s time for a sober, if occasionally amused, …

Tim Chambers

You know your day is starting well when talking to your smartest engineers about a suggestion from chatgpt and said engineers immediately start a google meet with this title

#ai
#hallucinations

This is so important and organizing on the open social web may be the most vital, free, and billionaire-proof places left to do digital organizing. Folllow @renewedresistance for more ways to help ahead of #nokings protest! ✊
https://channel.org/@renewedresistance/115361577846291040
Renewed Resistance (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Just under 1 week till #nokings protest. Here’s the plan: 1. Share / boost this post to grow account - help us grow to largest social reach by 18th ✅ 2. Amp and boost all Nokings posts leading up to 18th. We will, too. ✅ 3. On protest day take pics and share posts from you local protest w/ #nokings tag… join us in boosting every single one! Lets go build community show up in numbers never seen before, and organize the open social web to fight for democracy!

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As #fediforum starts tomorrow, this is a good time to note the updated @surf is live here: https://surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom%2F01jvprse7ptd6b9gccy3m9g547 #Surffeeds
Fediforum by Tim Chambers on Surf

Surf - Top #fediforum leaders, organizers, featured speakers and developers spotlighted at each all Fediforum events. Including both ATProto and ActivityPub voices there.

It’s more important than ever to support independent media free from corporate caving to autocracy and wherever possible on the open social web and on direct open media.
https://journa.host/@w7voa/115222129277589068
Steve Herman (@[email protected])

Variety - Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show on ABC TV will be off the air“indefinitely” after criticism of comments the host made about the motives of the man accused of assassinating conservative activist Charlie Kirk. https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/nexstar-jimmy-kimmel-abc-charlie-kirk-1236522584/

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