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by Avamander 2010 days ago
Interesting, cool to see someone building a similar service to Keybase's account proofs. Hopefully they'll also build something like Keybase's proof integration https://book.keybase.io/guides/proof-integration-guide as well.

If you have any suggestions as to which E2E (group) messaging+fileshare+git platform I could use as a replacement for Keybase I'm all ears.

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> Hopefully they'll also build something like Keybase's proof integration https://book.keybase.io/guides/proof-integration-guide as well.

As far as I've seen the proof integration is used only for Mastodon insurances and Keyoxide supports all of them by default: no need to ask for permission, no weird conditions to enter like, instance has to be bigger than N people.

I see this as a way to control who gets into Keybase. A perfect example of centralized control. The idea of programmable proofs looks good though.

> If you have any suggestions as to which E2E (group) messaging+fileshare+git platform I could use as a replacement for Keybase I'm all ears.

Sadly I won't help you with that. There are a number of services that want to eat Keybase's cake now but neither of them hits all points on my scale. So I'm using mostly several different services to get a semblance of the Keybase experience.

> As far as I've seen the proof integration is used only for Mastodon insurances

Just Mastodon a very narrow view of what could be implemented though. I saw alpha implementation for Discourse as well, before Zoom acquired them.

> no need to ask for permission, no weird conditions to enter like, instance has to be bigger than N people.

Yep that sounds reasonable, as long as we're not going to end up with a DoS because of too many proofs.