Aurynn Shawaurynn@cloudisland.nz
Oct 12, 2026, 10:31 PMoh yes, Zoom bought Keybase and abandoned it, I remember now.
Also it had Crypto all over it, which was gross but largely ignorable.
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- Aurynn Shawaurynn@cloudisland.nzOct 12, 2026, 11:09 PM
Someone ought to take Keyoxide and add all the interesting bits to it, which are chat, filesharing, and distributed version control software
Tim Bray 🇨🇦timbray@cosocial.caOct 12, 2026, 10:35 PM@aurynn The Keybase core idea was very powerful, I always thought. Adobe has flirted with it in the C2PA domain, you can add your verified LinkedIn and Adobe accounts to the data the software signs. (But then Adobe lost interest in that stuff it seems.)
👻 of deployments pastarichtman@eigenmagic.netOct 12, 2026, 10:50 PM- Aurynn Shawaurynn@cloudisland.nzOct 12, 2026, 11:06 PM
@arichtman @timbray keyoxide only provides the "wraps GPG" part and not the chat/filesharing/git stuff that's looking really interesting.
Wire looks like a compelling alternative for the the chat/identity/fileshare stuff, but lacks direct git support
Zoom buying Keybase seems to have killed everyone else's interest in the project, which, yeah, makes sense.
Wish someone would remake all the interesting bits (chat, files, git/hg/jj support) as free software, honestly
- Tim Bray 🇨🇦timbray@cosocial.caOct 12, 2026, 11:11 PM
@aurynn @arichtman Actually didn't know about keyoxide, will look. Interestingly, my take is kind of the opposite: Saying “here’s a keypair and here’s really strong evidence that it's controlled by the same entity who is X on SocialMedia1 and Y on SocialMedia2 and Z on SocialMedia3” feels like a very useful flavor of identity.
- Aurynn Shawaurynn@cloudisland.nzOct 13, 2026, 10:33 AM
@timbray @arichtman I agree that'd be useful. Time to write some sort of "sign in with KeyOxide" plugin for Safari on iOS and macOS, and add support to the various Fedi projects?
- 👻 of deployments pastarichtman@eigenmagic.netOct 13, 2026, 11:46 AM
Colin Coghillmugginsm@cloudisland.nzOct 13, 2026, 2:36 AM@aurynn I used it quite a lot before the crypto noise. it was a good idea just never caught on I guess?
Mistymisty@digipres.clubOct 13, 2026, 2:50 AM@aurynn It always felt like a neat core concept desperately looking for a business model. I guess I’m not surprised they went for crypto…
- Aurynn Shawaurynn@cloudisland.nzOct 13, 2026, 10:36 AM
@misty It seems like it'd easily sell as teamware, since I'm using it for that since it's looking very seamless. I'd have paid for that, I think.