jlgleason.bsky.social
Bluesky MLE | Previously: CS PhD at Northeastern | Computational Social Scientist | https://jlgleason.github.io/
👤 Joined on 15 December 2025
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@jlgleason.bsky.social@byarielm.fyi officiating the launch of @aster.id, home of researchers on the Atmosphere! Society is plural, democracy is plural — piece by piece we're making the internet plural as well.
Show Post“Fascinating new apps are being shown and discussed on X and nowhere else.” Yeah? Well, fascinating new apps are being BUILT on Bluesky and atproto everyday, not just discussed there. You can’t do that on X. It’s closed. It’s controlled by an authoritarian nazi. It closes doors, not opens them.
Show PostHi protocol friends! I've been cooking up a Very Large PDS (vlpds) implementation capable of scaling up to billions of accounts and down to just one. It uses Object Storage as its only state, supports HA operation, live scaling up and down, is feature-complete with the reference PDS, and is FOSS.
Show PostThe 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.
Show PostWhen 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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