I AM SO EXCITED FOR THIS!! 6+ months of work by SO many people is converging on a fantastic thing for researchers online. We want to democratize access to research infrastructure online, for good, and we've put together an amazing team to make it happen. ❤️
Aster ID@aster.id · 3d agoThe modern research ecosystem of online tools and communities is controlled by for-profit companies. But we think that researchers should be the priority - not the product. So, we're announcing Aster ID: not-for-profit Atmosphere account hosting for researchers.
![Several decentralized social-network protocols are increasingly being taken up by platforms for scholarly collaboration. ActivityPub [28] enables federated message exchange across independently operated servers and underlies Mastodon and the wider Fediverse. The AT Protocol underlying Bluesky [18] lets users choose their own moderators, so each builds a personal trusted view from independently signed assertions. Building on this protocol, Semble [10] is a research-oriented social knowledge network that gives researchers ownership of their data across applications and surfaces collections through peer networks rather than algorithmic feeds. Complementing these protocol-level efforts, the Open Research Knowledge Graph [15] follows a curated approach, representing scholarly content directly as a structured knowledge graph.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:b2p6rujcgpenbtcjposmjuc3/bafkreiavcm54wc6dww6o3ogi7cc3pmyl7wgyw72jmplwhvxp6lxrrh5uza)
