The publication process at traditional scientific journals has become highly exclusionary to all but the most senior academic researchers. Publication fees, increasingly cumbersome submission processes, and excessively critical review processes have made it tremendously difficult for independent researchers, graduate students, and undergraduates to publish anything but the most conservative and conventional articles. Seeds of Science does away with all of these features that tend to exclude researchers by having simple submission and revision processes and being open to non-traditional articles written in more informal or experimental styles (and no publication fees). This allows us to serve as a platform where researchers can publish early-stage ideas and receive feedback on them from a diverse community of scientists - a critical function that is not adequately supported in the current centralized scientific landscape. 
We also support the goals of DeSci through our community-based review process in which our “gardeners” vote and comment on manuscripts and have their comments published along with the manuscript. Our decentralized review process stands in contrast to the peer review process at most journals in which 2-3 in-depth reviews are provided by anonymous experts. While this review process has its strengths, it is less appropriate for more speculative or exploratory work which can benefit from a wider range of perspectives and a more charitable style of feedback aimed at extending and improving ideas. Our review process also provides an opportunity for people outside of senior academic positions (anyone with demonstrated scientific interest/expertise can become a gardener) to participate in a review process and, crucially, receive credit for doing so by having their comments published. In addition, we offer qualifying gardeners a dedicated biography page and publish a document with all of their peer review comments (assigned a DOI, searchable in academic databases).
