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by Gargyle 1685 days ago
Are there resources on the impact of Keybase being bought by Zoom? Zoom is out of question too because they discourage e2e and darkpattern you into installing their software despite browser compatibility and because they darkpattern you into giving cam/mic access just to listen to a broadcast-only session even if unnecessary. They place their own controlled device toggles as source of truth instead of those by the browser UI and fail in weird ways if you toggle in-browser. (Same for almost all other similar software as well)

I tossed them without a second thought after they annoyed me with Stellar. Nobody uses Stellar if they dont have a hidden incentive. It always had a huge forced marketing vibe.

Is there some sucessor to keybase?

(Motivation disclaimer: I want to dump on Keybase because in the end, even with flawless crypto at first, those organizations always erode the good things down to centralized with platform control again.)

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> Is there some sucessor to keybase?

Depends on the use case. E.g. for raw identity proofs https://keyoxide.org works well but it's not as straightforward to use as Keybase.