alt.hn

2/3/2026 at 5:11:42 PM

Show HN: Octosphere, a tool to decentralise scientific publishing

by crimsoneer

2/3/2026 at 5:23:51 PM

Are you aware of the current efforts by researchers on Bluesky to build a new researchers platform on ATProto? (Forget the project name at the moment)

If not, same handle over there, I can get you in touch with them. Or hit up Boris, he knows everyone and is happy to make connections

There's also a full day at the upcoming conference on ATProto & scientific related things. I think they com on discourse more (?)

by verdverm

2/3/2026 at 5:33:59 PM

Ooh no, please do, but would love to hear more!

by crimsoneer

2/3/2026 at 5:42:39 PM

Go chime in and share your work here: https://discourse.atprotocol.community/t/about-the-atproto-s...

That'll get us connected off HN

I think Cosmik is the group I was thinking of that has also put out some initial poc like yourself

by verdverm

2/3/2026 at 5:36:18 PM

id also be curious to follow this if you have any links or resources

by Johnny_Bonk

2/3/2026 at 5:42:13 PM

This is probably a good jumping off point

https://discourse.atprotocol.community/t/about-the-atproto-s...

by verdverm

2/3/2026 at 10:32:10 PM

@criomsoneer: Check out Open Science Network (Bonfire), they are also doing interesting work in this space! https://openscience.network/

by rsolva

2/3/2026 at 6:27:15 PM

Integrate them peer review process and you’ve got a disrupter

by gnarlouse

2/3/2026 at 7:13:21 PM

Peer review should be disrupted, but doing peer review via social media is not the way to go.

by mlpoknbji

2/3/2026 at 8:04:37 PM

Has a bit of a leg up in that if it's only academics commenting, it would probably be way more usable than typical social media, maybe even outright good.

by perching_aix

2/3/2026 at 6:33:28 PM

Right? This is kind of the dream.

by crimsoneer

2/3/2026 at 7:14:52 PM

Calling it peer review suggests gatekeeping. I suggest no gatekeepind just let any academic post a review, and maybe upvote/downvote and let crowdsourcing handle the rest.

by naasking

2/3/2026 at 7:27:51 PM

While I appreciate no gatekeeping, the other side of the coin is gatekeeping via bots (vote manipulation).

Something like rotten tomatoes could be useful. Have a list of "verified" users (critic score) in a separate voting column as anon users (audience score).

This will often serve useful in highly controversial situations to parse common narratives.

by staplers

2/3/2026 at 9:05:47 PM

Yes publishing is broken, but academics are the last people to jump onto platforms...they never left email. If you want to change the publishing game, turn publishing into email.

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