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by nemild 2381 days ago
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https://vicki.substack.com/p/keybase-and-the-chaos-of-crypto

> All of a sudden, I started receiving lots of random messages from people without profile pictures.

> These were people I didn’t know contacting me on a pretty frequent basis, and I had no way to opt-in to their messages. Pretty ironic for a platform built on privacy.

> I wasn’t the only one. After asking around, it seems that everyone I knew on Keybase was getting these. But of course, women with female names and profile pictures got a lot more than most men I knew. Other women online were experiencing it, too.