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I think this was the premise of Keybase?

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Still jaded that went nowhere...

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Did you miss “Zoom”?

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