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Are there any Keybase team members on here? When Zoom acquired the team they said they would notify us if Keybase was going to be negatively impacted; the outcome based on commit graphs, the project blog updates, etc has made overwhelmingly clear that the project is not receiving updates. Can someone either acknowledge that so I can move on to a new system or give us an update as to what's in the works?

Also, perspective for leadership at Zoom: if you buy an open ecosystem and it subsequently dies then it sends a really terrible message. Please right this somehow.

This is the last blog update: https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-joins-zoom

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> Also, perspective for leadership at Zoom: if you buy an open ecosystem and it subsequently dies then it sends a really terrible message.

The venn diagram of people who use strong tools like keybase and people who willingly use Zoom has no overlap.

Keybase was acquired in the wake of lots of negative PR around security (zoom bombing, kids booting teachers, employees snooping on calls, foreign spying, blocking anti-Chinese meetings, etc) and was an attempt to get any talent they could in the door. I am shocked it is still running.

> When Zoom acquired the team they said they would notify us if Keybase was going to be negatively impacted

I mean, at the time I knew that was a lie.

Honestly, just move now rather than waiting for a response or no response, the result will be the same.

It should have been clear to anyone, plain as day, given Zoom's reputation that Keybase was dead the minute the acquisition was announced.

I shut down my account the same day.

Not to be overly cynical or patronizing, but everybody should really know better than to trust zoom, or any for-profit company really, on things like this

Man, Keybase had so much potential, if it had been opened up as a platform. But it seems from the context that it was an acquisition of the team and the code, not the app.

This seems relevant:

https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/

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