¶ Letter to university dean
Overview of IndieSky goals around independent ATProto infrastructure
What does it mean to run independent AT Protocol / Bluesky network infrastructure? Working together to host commons infrastructure, and build better tooling for scientific needs.
Running commons infrastructure and supporting R&D for independent AT Protocol services.
Things like hosting a Personal data Server (PDS) for our community of scientists would be hugely interesting to us. Having an alt relay to hook in to would also be amazing for us to demonstrate to the wider astronomy community that our platform won't go the way of Twitter someday, and that it can be trusted. — Emily Hunt, Astronomy feeds founder, emily.space
Paul Fuxjäger, Uni Wien, [email protected]
NorthSky - group of passionate web developers and community moderators working to build a digital space designed around active moderation and user safety for 2SLGBTQIA+ communities. Will be running servers in Canada. Aendra?
Free Our Feeds - would like to see infrastructure independent of the Bluesky company
Sebastian Korfmann, Link attestation of educational skills to a social graph
We are working on supporting atproto data storage for "composable" open educational resourses (OER), Jannik Streek,
we are interested in long-form scientific writing isupport in ATproto. Linking documents to identifier systems is crucial to make this useuful for researchers. SLUB
Architectural overview
ATproto architectural overview - by Jannik Streek
Research communities run their own data infrastructure (as a personal data server, PDS). Relays aggregate this data into a dat astream consumable by everybody.
Labeler services annotate data streams and enable fine-grained feeds and moderation services.
All components are interoperable and user-centric AppViews can be build.
They an be used together in all ATproto apps across all research areas and linked to social networks.
algorithmic choice, no platform lock-in
¶ academic institution hosting
TODO: table of planned components and estimated infra requirements (cpu, ram, disk, network, …)