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0 pointsnathancahill14d ago0 comments

I think this was the premise of Keybase?

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youainti14d ago

Still jaded that went nowhere...

wizzwizz414d ago

Keyoxide still exists: https://keyoxide.org/.

klntsky14d ago

It was too early. It even executed its crypto airdrop YEARS before it became a common form of distribution in web3

jsheard14d ago

It's kind of bizarre that Zoom is still bothering to keep the lights on at Keybase when it's been completely fossilized for six years now. The writing is so obviously on the wall that nobody should be relying on it for anything, and yet they just won't let it die.

midtake14d ago

It's not fossilized, it's just that no one uses it. Put hot chicks on there or make it mandatory for logging into Slack and suddenly everyone will be using keybase.io, and honestly I think web of trust is a good idea and if a webapp can make it seem easy or intuitive then I'm all for it.

We're scratching our heads wondering why there's no forward motion when it's simply that no one is pushing it.

jsheard14d ago

Looks pretty fossilized to me: https://keybase.io/blog

They haven't added or really changed anything since the acquisition AFAICT, it's just trucking along exactly as it was the day Zoom bought them out. Twitter account proofs were broken by the API changes years ago and nobody is at the wheel to fix or even just deprecate them.

https://github.com/keybase/keybase-issues/issues/4200

DANmode14d ago

> We're scratching our heads wondering why there's no forward motion

Did you miss “Zoom”?

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