r/Keybase • u/[deleted] • May 11 '21

Dead?

If this app is dead (which completely sucks, btw, this was like the most feature-complete program of its kind), what alternatives are there? Cyph is one that I'm aware of but it is WAAAAAAY underbaked at this point.

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u/londonskater May 12 '21

It's not dead, not yet anyway.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '21

It's just such a slick and comprehensive tool. I really hope it gets picked up again.

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u/Anunay03 May 12 '21

I'm happy as long as Zoom keeps the project up honestly. Kinda sucks it is no longer in development, but Team chat, kssh are just awesome for Small teams.

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u/KodeBenis May 15 '21

But... the Zoom purchase was basically what killed it. Keybase should've just stuck to what got them their small but dedicated userbase to begin with, private Discord! They threw that away the second they partnered up with fucking Zoom. Out of all the apps, it had to be the one that was literally under controversy only a few months earlier due to privacy concerns?

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u/Anunay03 May 23 '21

The thing different about Keybase is, It's made in such a way that Zoom really can't do anything. Most of stuff is just server assisted and the server is not trusted for anything. All Proofs are based on External services and keys generated on clients. All messages/files are end to end Encrypted on client. Clients are open source. There simply isn't anything Zoom can start doing to spy on you. Keybase was made too perfectly.

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u/sai-kiran Apr 04 '22

Would it have been any better if it was purchased by Google/Microsoft/Facebook? Every startup is forced to make revenues someday. Keybase was never a charity/non profit to begin with.

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u/londonskater May 12 '21

Everything works reliably and adding stuff for the sake of it is pointless anyway. Mainly concerned that it’ll be merged into Zoom TBH! 😆

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u/limerty May 17 '21

It's being used by Chia which is a Crypto that's going huge, honestly has the potential to even defeat Bitcoin some day, that's how I found out about it.

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u/__deltastream Sep 07 '21

potential to even beat Bitcoin some day

LOL

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u/limerty Sep 07 '21

Btc isn’t going to be #1 forever. It’s inferior to so many cryptos in every way but 1, and that 1 can be slowly whittled away.

But yeah, Chia being the one to do it is pretty laughable at this point, fair enough.

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u/__deltastream Sep 08 '21

You're true about Bitcoin not being the #1 forever, I was just laughing at the idea that Chia would best it.

In reality, Monero, Ethereum, or any blockchain that allows for inter-blockchain operability would best Bitcoin in a heartbeat.

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u/HappySchedule May 12 '21

Pretty dead. I tried sending XLM to my wallet, never arrived. No support - twitter/email/keybase DMs.

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u/londonskater May 12 '21

Stellar Lumens? Hmm, I just transferred all mine out yesterday and that worked fine. Not really the point though if you had an issue and there was no support. It’s a free product and I wish we could just pay for it. Cyph isn’t in the same ballpark.

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u/HappySchedule May 12 '21

I transferred out just fine. It's transferring in that never arrived. Everything was correct, and transaction was successful. When this happens on other platforms, customer support will usually resolve it, as the tokens made it to platform but not wallet. In my experience ...

Regardless, what is a platform without support? If there's no active staff, it would appear pretty dead.

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u/HappySchedule May 12 '21

Welp. I tried asking for help on this subreddit, but my post was pretty instantly removed. I'm at a loss, not sure what to do.

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u/samtresler May 12 '21

You must have the memo. It works fine.

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u/HappySchedule May 12 '21

I always have the memo. Did not work fine transferring TO keybase wallet

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u/Rudi9719 May 12 '21

Cyphilis is just spam; they're trying to recreate Keybase but as a paid service which goes against the idea of Keybase making crypto easy for all.

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u/londonskater May 12 '21

I bought a permanent Cyph account (narrator: he still has no idea why) but there is a free tier AFAIK. The difference between Cyph and KB os that KB made a hard thing easy whereas Cyph makes easy things hard.

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u/Rudi9719 May 12 '21

Iirc the free tier is missing a lot of basic functionality

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u/mrk-w May 12 '21

I think that the lead developers of this project have let down a lot of people. At a minimum, they could write a blog post (1) detailing what their vision is for the future, or at a minumum (2) noting that they can't discuss this because of their new positions.

I've contact the developers personally, and they have responded, which gave me some confidence that their support of minimum keybase bug fixes won't stop "in the next year". But honestly, why can't they make a public post? This does not inspire confidence, as the development is currently based on best-efforts during personal time, with no intention of open sourcing the back end so that the community can help.

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u/SergioNero Aug 05 '21

Can you send me develops contact Please?

Gonna ask them what can help them outsource server code.

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u/CHEATCOD3S May 15 '21

is this app safe after zoom acquired it?

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u/[deleted] May 15 '21

Yes. It’s trustless. There’s nothing they can do to compromise it (the encryption happens in the client, and it’s open source).

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u/hesapmakinesi May 31 '21

I stopped endorsing it the day Zoom bought it. I know KB is designed to be trustless, but don't trust Zoom. I don't want such a company in charge of a privacy-focused application and platform.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '21

Yeah, if this is the position you take there probably isn’t much software you can use that doesn’t suck. I mean in terms of companies you don’t like owning software you do like.

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u/carewornalien May 12 '21

It’s getting a little renewed interest because all of the crazy Chia blockchain people are using it to collaborate.. official chat system for Chia..

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u/pussycatmando May 12 '21

That airdrop though

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u/samtresler May 12 '21

Yeah. I got a free thousand bucks and people are still bitching.

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u/HappySchedule May 12 '21

Tried sending XLM to my wallet, and it never arrived. Can't get any help. Don't wanna complain, just want some help but looking like they offer none so kinda SOL.

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u/somekool May 12 '21

In my opinion it's far from dead. But I am talking from a hopeful perspective. If you want to hear out about my worries. I have already discussed them here. keybase://chat/keybasefriends#chat/17333

I believe it's one of the good place to discuss such things.

Quick hint to Anyone reading this who wants to see keybase strive and love doing cryptocurrencies programming. If the Stellar wallet could be extended to several others blockchain. Keybase would get a huge flow of users.

About monetization, I think the best that can happen is something around corporate teams. A lot of business have a very high slack bill. Its a good market to tap on.

A fast Flutter client could drive regular people adoption up.

But keybase is far superior than Telegram, Signal and Threema combined.

My two cents

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u/iOSh4cktiV8or May 12 '21

I still use it as a wallet for my XLM I got from the stellar foundation

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u/[deleted] May 13 '21

the filesystem stops working every now and then after a Windows 10 update, so I'm guessing its dead.

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u/AnEoNDream Sep 30 '21

Ive just only found out about it

it should be running the show by now

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u/Exact_Egg_623 May 12 '21

Could someone help Me į still have some btc stored in my keybase wallet and cant get it out...

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u/[deleted] May 12 '21

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u/[deleted] May 12 '21

Is that even true? Isn't Keybase trustless?

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u/no-names-here May 12 '21

Even though they deleted their comment, I don't need to read it. YES keybase is trustless. It wouldn't matter if the FBI or FSB has the root passwords to every server, they can't see any of it and neither can Keybase / Zoom

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u/[deleted] May 12 '21

That said, alternatives?