Show HN: Octosphere, a tool to decentralise scientific publishing(octosphere.social)
31 pointsby crimsoneer5 hours ago3 comments
  • verdverm4 hours ago
    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 (?)

  • 1110101001000142 minutes ago
    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.
  • gnarlouse3 hours ago
    Integrate them peer review process and you’ve got a disrupter
    • mlpoknbji3 hours ago
      Peer review should be disrupted, but doing peer review via social media is not the way to go.
      • perching_aix2 hours ago
        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.
    • crimsoneer3 hours ago
      Right? This is kind of the dream.
    • naasking3 hours ago
      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.
      • staplers2 hours ago
        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.