I love Keybase, but I would never recommend it today.
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* fully open source (including the server) and self hostable
* has a business model of charging for a hosted version
* designed so that you don't need to trust your server
* audited by Cure53
* fine-grained access control
* identity proofs with controllable visibility
* encrypted applications like calendar, chat, social media, text editor, video streamer, PDF viewer, kanban
* custom apps - you can write your own apps for it (HTML5), which run in a sandbox which you can grant various permissions
* designed with quantum resistance in mind
You can read more in our tech book (https://book.peergos.org) or source (https://github.com/peergos/peergos)
Disclaimer: co-founder here
This is great for distributing encrypted keychains/configuration files and the such across various platforms (where many apps are not cloud-aware but are happy interacting with the filesystem). So far the "mount" approach seems to have also performed considerably better than syncing-based services (dropbox, G drive, OneDrive etc.) which from time to time have resulted in hard to untangle merge errors.
Peergos looks promising but it also looks to be a web-only service, so not exactly a replacement yet. Would be nice to see an option for local native mounting. Preferably via a native app with a FUSE-like mount point, but I'd also probably be OK with something like WebDAV maybe.
You can also migrate server unilaterally and keep your social graph without needing to tell everyone, all links to your stuff continue to work afterwards.
I would pay $/mo for a Keybase reboot with the goal of building a sustainable business like Signal did instead of taking VC money for a shot at the moon. Until someone does that, Keybase continues to work as a messaging app with usernames instead of phone numbers.
Keybase still works and for a simple messaging app does the job better than Signal or any other messaging app that requires a phone number. This is a total disaster.
> but nothing they were doing of late with Lumens was that exciting anyway (trying to become a crypto wallet like everyone and their mothers).
Just like Signal did, with their own private crypto wallet and cryptocurrency that they have been working suspiciously in the background for a year after being questioned.