Everyone focuses on Matrix, Telegram, Signal, etc. but no one mentions Keybase. What am I missing here? Seeing as though a lot of developers use Keybase as their profile page with the public key, is the chat app not as good?
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Everyone focuses on Matrix, Telegram, Signal, etc. but no one mentions Keybase. What am I missing here? Seeing as though a lot of developers use Keybase as their profile page with the public key, is the chat app not as good?
Just found this after @k00b posted the fact the it was bought by Zoom: https://restoreprivacy.com/secure-encrypted-messaging-apps/keybase/
Seems like Zoom is owned by China AND I could not find a way to easily create a reproducible build from source so there's no good way to verify that the packages available from download on their website are exactly what's available and auditable on Github.
I suspect it's a network effect thing + the fact that keybase was swallowed by Zoom at some point.
Gross
Oh wow I did not know the Zoom thing. Interesting.
How about a Keybase fork, minus the shitcoin (Stellar)?
https://keys.pub/#install
Also, Zoom = CCP.
Not sure I understand what you mean by "minus the shitcoin"? And that link you provided is very... rough. I'm looking for something that has an app and desktop client that family can use.
https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-stellar-launch
and
https://medium.com/stellar-community/so-you-just-got-your-keybase-spacedrop-what-now-2398fa160d19
LOL had no idea they did that! LOL
What's the advantage of Keybase over Signal?
Don't know. Not saying there is one. That said, building Signal from source is a hot mess. The amount of dependencies and packages they use is insane. Almost to the point of wondering if they do it on purpose so that people don't build from source and just download the executable they provide on their website which may or may not be the same code that's available for audit.
It was acquired by Zoom, which makes some people worried.
Some folks created alternative solution (for the key management part): https://keyoxide.org
That is a very interesting project. It also led me down the rabbit hole of learning about codeberg.org. So many things to learn, so little time.