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How is Keybase chat federated? Using a centralized service defeats the purpose of a decentralized Fediverse.

• ocdtrekkie 8y ago
  It's not, but decentralization isn't super effective for private channels of communication, particularly where neither end is running the software in question. (Most Mastodon users aren't site admins.) But presumably if proving a Keybase user and a Mastodon user are the same is given, when a Mastodon user wants to contact another outside of Mastodon, Keybase Chat may be the new default choice.
  • rickycook 8y ago
    i think that’s pretty incorrect tbh; xmpp/otr, and matrix handle federation and private chat/encryption just fine id much prefer to see chat that’s just thinly wrapped in a pgp implementation that gets its keys from keybase (maybe just initial secrets transferred with pgp for handshake or something)
  • phoe-krk 8y ago
    > but decentralization isn't super effective for private channels of communication The two examples of that not being the case are OTR XMPP and PGP e-mail. > particularly where neither end is running the software in question You cannot have useful encrypted communication if your software does not support it.