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Re: Mastodon and Keybase

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Post by Twisol »

eadmund wrote: post #35
Nadya wrote: post #19

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Task: Send me a tweet on Twitter. Careful not to send it to any imposters. Challenge: Finding me on Twitter. For example, I am not @Nadya Extra Credit Challenge: Let's say I'm e-famous enough to have imposter accounts but not have a Twitter "verified" badge. Which Twitter account is the real me? And how do you know? Where Keybase comes in: On my HN profile itself you can find my signatures on Keybase. Keybase is not…

> On my HN profile itself you can find my signatures on Keybase. … or your HN account could just link straight to your Twitter account. I don't get what Keybase adds here.

If you have an account on N different sites, and you want to let people identify you between each of those, linking directly requires (N-1) links per profile, or N*(N-1) links total. When you create a new profile elsewhere, you need to update your profile on each of the N original sites, plus add N links in your profile at the new site.

Or you could collect all of your identities into a Keybase profile, which all of your other profiles link to. That's a lot less to manage. Plus, proving your identity at some site (usually) has the byproduct of pointing back at your Keybase profile, so even if you come at this just from a "less work for me" angle, you're getting verifiability for free.

Re: Mastodon and Keybase

#42

Post by dcbadacd »

0xb100db1ade wrote: post #17
ocdtrekkie wrote: post #5

I wonder if the Mastodon community will pick up Keybase chat as the de facto chat option with this integration in place. Chat or private messaging has always been considered the weak link of the fediverse since it's easy for bad servers to mishandle "private" toots.

I wish that Keybase could work with the Signal team on something. Signal has a lot of experience in UI [1] and security, and Keybase had the identity proofs. I'd love to see them work together rather than compete. [1] Signal UI used to be horrible but as of the past few months it's improved a ton! It's now my preferred SMS client.

The phone number requirement is a killing feature for me, makes it useless. I wouldn't put it even close to the UX bar Keybase has for me.

Re: Mastodon and Keybase

#43

Post by pault »

giggles_giggles wrote: post #40
0xb100db1ade wrote: post #17

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I wish that Keybase could work with the Signal team on something. Signal has a lot of experience in UI [1] and security, and Keybase had the identity proofs. I'd love to see them work together rather than compete. [1] Signal UI used to be horrible but as of the past few months it's improved a ton! It's now my preferred SMS client.

>Signal UI used to be horrible but as of the past few months it's improved a ton! That's funny, I've had the opposite experience. Once I got everyone I know to start using it and was completely locked-in, I started having all kinds of weird issues. My favorite is when my phone has been off awhile. After I turn it back on, I get a notification for every message I sent/received on another device while it was off. Usual…

You'd rather opt in to global passive surveillance than deal with an inconvenient UX?

Re: Mastodon and Keybase

#44

Post by dcbadacd »

jeena wrote: post #30
coldacid wrote: post #23

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My bet would be both. After all, why handle all the dirty work of implementing real-time chat that works across multiple different sites when you can just plug in Keybase instead? After all, if you're using it for encryption you already require people to have a Keybase account to have their chats encrypted.

Why would you install different Mastodon servers when you can go to twitter.com instead?

I don't :P It's too tedious to keep an eye on multiple communities and manage my single identity.

Re: Mastodon and Keybase

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Post by yogthos »

jeena wrote: post #18
zach43 wrote: post #15

Just wanted to say that i moved from twitter to mastodon sometime late last year amd couldn't be happier with it. Keybase integration is interesting to me, but not realky useful since i don't want to tie mastodon with my real life identity. the Fediverse as a whole has a very different 'feel' to it compared to Twitter. Twitter feels significantly more commercialized amd stressful...mastodon / pleroma feel a lot more…

It would be cool to see everyone's Mastodon usernames/domains, I'm on my own self hosted instance where it's a bit more difficult to find other people. Mine is: https://toot.jeena.net/@jeena

mine is: https://mastodon.social/@yogthos

Re: Mastodon and Keybase

#46

Post by dcbadacd »

wut42 wrote: post #24
insomniacity wrote: post #9

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I would imagine they're happy to support small instances if they have a legitimate userbase... why not ask them and report back?

They already somewhat said that porn related instances will not be allowed. So sex workers and such won't be able to use this. Why bother asking them? I moved to the fediverse to NOT be controlled and regulated by corporations, because there's no need to. Adding such a feature in Mastodon is stupid. What's the next step? Integrated Twitter client?

Yes please, make it possible to discuss external content more easily in Mastodon, please.

Re: Mastodon and Keybase

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Post by mirimir »

zach43 wrote: post #15

Just wanted to say that i moved from twitter to mastodon sometime late last year amd couldn't be happier with it. Keybase integration is interesting to me, but not realky useful since i don't want to tie mastodon with my real life identity. the Fediverse as a whole has a very different 'feel' to it compared to Twitter. Twitter feels significantly more commercialized amd stressful...mastodon / pleroma feel a lot more…

> Keybase integration is interesting to me, but not realky useful since i don't want to tie mastodon with my real life identity.

Ummm. I mean, https://keybase.io/mirimir has nothing to do with my "real life identity".

Re: Mastodon and Keybase

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Post by prophesi »

jeena wrote: post #18
zach43 wrote: post #15

Just wanted to say that i moved from twitter to mastodon sometime late last year amd couldn't be happier with it. Keybase integration is interesting to me, but not realky useful since i don't want to tie mastodon with my real life identity. the Fediverse as a whole has a very different 'feel' to it compared to Twitter. Twitter feels significantly more commercialized amd stressful...mastodon / pleroma feel a lot more…

It would be cool to see everyone's Mastodon usernames/domains, I'm on my own self hosted instance where it's a bit more difficult to find other people. Mine is: https://toot.jeena.net/@jeena

Yeah, I self-hosted my own instance of Pleroma for a while, but eventually switched to a more popular instance with people who have similar interests as me (art + religion (specifically, rediscovering religion after rage-quitting Christianity @social.theliturgists.com)

Re: Mastodon and Keybase

#49

Post by dcbadacd »

bloopernova wrote: post #38

Keybase is certainly interesting. Is it possible to link up to your stackoverflow identity yet? How are people using Keybase right now? I added several of my accounts but I'm especially interested in the GPG encryption/signing.

StackOverflow integration sounds really cool. Wish they added Discourse support as well - hard to prove I'm me on all of these Discourse instances.

Re: Mastodon and Keybase

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Post by [deleted] »

jeena wrote: post #18
zach43 wrote: post #15

Just wanted to say that i moved from twitter to mastodon sometime late last year amd couldn't be happier with it. Keybase integration is interesting to me, but not realky useful since i don't want to tie mastodon with my real life identity. the Fediverse as a whole has a very different 'feel' to it compared to Twitter. Twitter feels significantly more commercialized amd stressful...mastodon / pleroma feel a lot more…

It would be cool to see everyone's Mastodon usernames/domains, I'm on my own self hosted instance where it's a bit more difficult to find other people. Mine is: https://toot.jeena.net/@jeena

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