This is where I'm at as well. I set myself up when friends were setting themselves up, but never really used it for anything. I published my proofs, but as far as I can tell they didn't do anything for me.
We used it at work to provide secure communications and file exchange. We're still using it for chat, but we've almost completely stopped using KBFS and we're looking into alternatives for chat. I think Matrix is the best option there.
A while ago, I switched from Slack to use Keybase and it was doing great until Zoom bought it. In fear of it being shut down at any time, I never came back.
Tomorrow would be exactly 1 year ago since that announcement and Zoom haven't touched or done anything with Keybase yet. So who knows.
Holding those Stellar Lumens was really a good idea after all, which I indeed did.
Huh, I vaguely remember hearing about the Stellar Lumens airdrop and I just checked and I have ~$230 USD of them in my Keybase account which is nice I guess. I'll probably just hold them but I had forgotten all about those.
I couldn't care less about collaboration features. All I want is a cryptographic way (or, if done well, even without crypto) to tie my identity together across disparate social media profiles so that they are all in one place.
Wow, thanks for reminding me about those. I didn't think anything of them when they added them to my account. Looks like I got 1400 lumens from the drop.
I used it when it was only a way to build a trust network. I stopped using it when they started adding chatting and other functionality. Never even once used the chat feature or anything else they later bolted on.
Same here, wouldn’t mind the chat feature but the crypto wallet was a step too far. The web of trust stuff seems to have been removed and replaced by a follow mechanism that I don’t understand the reason for.
I find it useful as a way that anyone can contact me securely - especially when needing to discuss something with tech teams in other companies who might not be on Slack etc. I think it's actually a great product and it's a shame that Zoom don't seem to.
Never really used the chat feature extensively. I can not recommend it either way, since they are censoring groups like the DEFCAD community. Given the acquisition by Zoom and Keybase's unmonetizable nature, I doubt it will be around for long.
Yes, I still use it for some chat and I have some personal configuration stored in encrypted git repos. Does anyone else offer encrypted git repos with as little overhead?
Zoom said they had no intention of continuing developing Keybase as-is., and nobody even pretended it would be business as usual after the acquisition. It’s a little surprising it’s all still running at this point.
(My memory is a little fuzzy, but this is how I remember the announcement and discussion around it.)
I still use it for its identity features, but I switched chat over to a Matrix instance. To be honest, the timing of the acquisition wasn't good -- it came at the height of the Zoom/China FUD, and given that Keybase attracts security-minded users, it was a recipe for diaspora.
Every day, and it's still very reliable and works very well for me; i hope it continues to run, though it would be nice for Zoom to make a strong statement around it.
I note the Keybase github repos continue to receive updates too, so it's not like it's dead.
I still use it fairly often... only complaint is the extremely annoying update reminders that seem to come up way too often. Would prefer if they didn’t just pop up and only showed when I opened the app
Tried to the other day and discovered that I can't log into the app at all. Can log into the website no problem, but the app gives me a weird error and there doesn't seem to be a way of getting help if you aren't using the app.
Keybase failed to expand on the on the one thing it was good at: Provide an identity root.
Rooting everyone's identity in a PGP is a great idea, any making that accesible to non-nerds would solve _a lot_ of problems faced in nearly every industry.
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[ 4.3 ms ] story [ 84.0 ms ] threadSeems like the new PGP key signing party.
Thanks for the Stellar Lumens too.
Tomorrow would be exactly 1 year ago since that announcement and Zoom haven't touched or done anything with Keybase yet. So who knows.
Holding those Stellar Lumens was really a good idea after all, which I indeed did.
For me, that was the "they've jumped the shark" moment.
(My memory is a little fuzzy, but this is how I remember the announcement and discussion around it.)
Whenever Zoom finally decides to kill it, I'll probably move my conversations to Signal, and my files to ProtonDrive (whenever it ships).
I note the Keybase github repos continue to receive updates too, so it's not like it's dead.
The app itself and their GitHub repo feel abandoned, so I wouldn't be surprised if they announce its discontinuation.
Rooting everyone's identity in a PGP is a great idea, any making that accesible to non-nerds would solve _a lot_ of problems faced in nearly every industry.