Aster ID

Aster ID

@aster.id

The Atmosphere account for researchers. Backed by a non-profit, free forever. 🌼 Find out more: https://aster.place

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@aster.id

@byarielm.fyi onboarding our first researchers to Aster ✨ Thanks @emily.space for the dedicated remote support

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Later today, we're going to be welcoming the first researchers onto our PDS at #IOSP2026! Aster ID starts today. 🌼

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@jimray.bsky.team hey! As we're launching our PDS next week, and are expecting to hand out ~100 invites to all attendees (plus get our team on our new PDS), would it be possible to get our PDS unthrottled by the Bluesky relay already? Else our launch might have a lil hiccup

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We'll be invite-only for the next few months anyway, so we don't expect to cause any network spam issues 🫡

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Mosh Lee
@mosh.bsky.social

Here are some flowers for the @aster.id crew, who managed to announce their launch exactly when asters hit peak purple in north america. (They're smart like that.)

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ICYMI: two days ago, we announced what we've been working on for the past few months - the reception has been amazing. 💜 We're super excited to start our closed alpha in just ten days!

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The 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.

blog.aster.placeAnnouncing Aster - a home for researchers on the open web

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Mosh Lee
@mosh.bsky.social

Really nice to see this! When we say "user-owned," most of the time individual users don't actually want to run their own infrastructure. But a group of researchers banding together to run infra BY and FOR users like themselves — maybe that's what user agency meant all along 🫶

Aster ID@aster.id

The 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.

blog.aster.placeAnnouncing Aster - a home for researchers on the open web

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Ariel M. (she/her)
@byarielm.fyi

If you’ve seen me trying not to reveal what I’ve been working on the last few months, well, here it is 🎉 Our first big offering - aside from Atmosphere account hosting - is personal websites for researchers! Drop your must-haves, preferences, ideas, or questions about personal/prof sites below 🧪🧬💻

Aster ID@aster.id

The 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.

blog.aster.placeAnnouncing Aster - a home for researchers on the open web

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Robin Berjon
@robin.berjon.com

The social internet — for science! I'm super excited to see @aster.id launching. It's an Atmosphere service provider (like @eurosky.social) for researchers, hosted by your friends at the @modalfoundation.eurosky.social. Why does it matter? Thread time! 🧵

Aster ID@aster.id

The 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.

blog.aster.placeAnnouncing Aster - a home for researchers on the open web

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Modal Foundation
@modalfoundation.eurosky.social

Thrilled that Aster.id has launched, and very happy for the Modal Foundation to be supporting in an incubation role. modalfoundation.leaflet.pub/3mwqgvxl5a22a

modalfoundation.leaflet.pubIncubating Aster
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The 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.

blog.aster.placeAnnouncing Aster - a home for researchers on the open web

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Ronen Tamari
@ronentk.me

So excited for this!! The idea for Aster was sparked in conversations in Vancouver at @atmosphereconf.org and now after a few months we're launching it! It's a real labor of love - grateful to be part of the wonderful team spanning @modalfoundation.eurosky.social @eurosky.social @atproto.science

Aster ID@aster.id

The 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.

blog.aster.placeAnnouncing Aster - a home for researchers on the open web

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ATProto Science
@atproto.science

This is going to be big, kudos to the @aster.id team. We can just transform research, together 🤝 #wecanjustdothings

Aster ID@aster.id

The 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.

blog.aster.placeAnnouncing Aster - a home for researchers on the open web

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Benjamin Braun
@benbraun.social

Exciting. If you're a researcher and still don't know about about #ATScience, it's time to get up to speed by reading this thread and following the accounts mentioned.

Aster ID@aster.id

The 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.

blog.aster.placeAnnouncing Aster - a home for researchers on the open web

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Jim Ray
@jimray.bsky.team

Oh this is exciting and backed by a murderer’s row of atproto knowers. Makes perfect sense for science to be embracing the protocol like this.

Aster ID@aster.id

The 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.

blog.aster.placeAnnouncing Aster - a home for researchers on the open web

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Atmosphere Community
@atmosphere.community

Congrats to @aster.id & @atproto.science team on the launch of Aster ID: accounts for researchers as a non-profit service, hosted on the open web. And incubated by @modalfoundation.eurosky.social

Aster ID@aster.id

The 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.

blog.aster.placeAnnouncing Aster - a home for researchers on the open web
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When can you get an Aster ID? We’re launching a closed alpha in two weeks at @scios.tech's IOSP workshop. After that, we’ll grow gradually in an invite-only phase, giving us time to grow sustainably and safely. You can subscribe to our blog to get updated on when that happens:

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We’re also working on apps of our own - including a hosting platform for personal websites that will finally make academic websites easy. Stay tuned for more - your Aster ID will be your personal webpage, too!

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@aster.id

Because of the power of Atmosphere accounts, there are so many apps you can benefit from as a researcher. For science, over 30 apps and tools for publishing (e.g. @leaflet.pub ), networking (e.g. @sifa.id), or curating knowledge (e.g. @semble.so) will all be compatible with your Aster ID.

ATProto Science@atproto.science

We made a thing! Check out our new #ATScience ecosystem map ✨ All projects, organized in one place: atproto.science/ecosystem/

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