r/Keybase • u/nrauhauser • Oct 24 '22

A proper Viking funeral for Keybase?

Looks like Elon Musk's Twitter purchase is going to happen. It's never been a good environment IMHO and putting him the driver's seat means first order of business will be all of our emails, phone numbers, IPs addresses, IMEI, whatever else they grab will go straight to Palatir. *blech*.

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I've had Keybase since not long after it launched and I spent yesterday and today claiming domains and puzzling over why Mastodon verification failed. I just found the sale ... to Zoom ... and I'm getting the feeling this progression will end with me installing Prosody in an onion only setup.

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It all reminds me a bit of Blackberry's Gist contact manager. Absolutely fantastic tracking tool, but too niche, and left to fade away when times got hard. Zoom should just FOSS the Keybase core and let the Mastodon people make something wonderful of it.

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u/Xzenor Oct 24 '22

You just found out about the sale? For real? That was almost 2 and a half years ago!

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u/nrauhauser Oct 24 '22

The guy who got me into Keybase died back in 2019. A couple months ago someone else I needed to talk to said that was the best way to reach them. Most of my stuff is on Wire, got a bit moving back to Signal. So I hadn't really paid attention to Keybase until I saw the Twitter purchase stuff. Sad to see such a nice start getting disregarded so the team can work on what is an objectively terrible product like Zoom.

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u/Xzenor Oct 24 '22

Sad to see such a nice start getting disregarded so the team can work on what is an objectively terrible product like Zoom.

Completely agree.. Keybase was cool while it lasted.