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@aster.idLater today, we're going to be welcoming the first researchers onto our PDS at #IOSP2026!
Aster ID starts today. 🌼
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@aster.id@aster.idThanks so much! 🎉
@aster.idWe'll be invite-only for the next few months anyway, so we don't expect to cause any network spam issues 🫡
@aster.id@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
@mosh.bsky.socialReposted by @aster.idHere 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.)
@aster.idICYMI: 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!
@aster.idFlower power! 🌼
@aster.idOh no - we tried quite hard to set things up correctly, but could also have missed something. What problem did you have? I guess while trying to read the blog post?
@aster.idYou'd be able to move an existing Bluesky account to Aster, meaning we'd become the provider that hosts your data. Eurosky have a great migration guide that explains how this works for Atmosphere accounts:
@mosh.bsky.socialReposted by @aster.idReally 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.idYes! We're planning to feature it as one of our recommended apps.
@byarielm.fyiReposted by @aster.idIf 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 🧪🧬💻
@emily.spaceReposted by @aster.idThe most difficult challenge about hosting Atmosphere accounts for researchers is... deciding how to define "researcher".
This is a big topic that we want to be transparent about and get community input on. More below from @mathewlowry.eurosky.social:
@robin.berjon.comReposted by @aster.idThe 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! 🧵
@modalfoundation.eurosky.socialReposted by @aster.idThrilled that Aster.id has launched, and very happy for the Modal Foundation to be supporting in an incubation role. modalfoundation.leaflet.pub/3mwqgvxl5a22a
@aster.idThank you for your support! Doing PDS hosting properly is hard, and we wouldn't be able to do it without Eurosky & Modal ❤️
@ronentk.meReposted by @aster.idSo 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
@atproto.scienceReposted by @aster.idThis is going to be big, kudos to the @aster.id team.
We can just transform research, together 🤝
@benbraun.socialReposted by @aster.idExciting. 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.