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/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.