Show HN: Octosphere, a tool to decentralise scientific publishing
by crimsoneer on 2/3/2026, 5:11:42 PM
Hey HN! I went to an ATProto meetup last week, and as a burnt-out semi-academic who hates academic publishing, I thought there might be a cool opportunity to build on Octopus (<a href="https://www.octopus.ac/" rel="nofollow">https://www.octopus.ac/</a>), so I got a bit excited over the weekend and built Octosphere.<p>Hopefully some of you find it interesting! Blog post here: <a href="https://andreasthinks.me/posts/octosphere/octosphere.html" rel="nofollow">https://andreasthinks.me/posts/octosphere/octosphere.html</a>
Comments
by: verdverm
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)<p>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<p>There's also a full day at the upcoming conference on ATProto & scientific related things. I think they com on discourse more (?)
2/3/2026, 5:23:51 PM
by: gnarlouse
Integrate them peer review process and you’ve got a disrupter
2/3/2026, 6:27:15 PM