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It's quite heart breaking. I particularly loved the idea of the Keybase Filesystem, sad to see this fall into an abandoned state. The closest Keybase alternati

by mwest 5y ago

It's quite heart breaking. I particularly loved the idea of the Keybase Filesystem, sad to see this fall into an abandoned state. The closest Keybase alternative I've found so far is https://keys.pub/ https://keys.pub/ (on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22995792 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22995792) Welcome any suggestions for KBFS alternatives!

owerflov 5y ago
I use keyoxide (https://keyoxide.org https://keyoxide.org) for showing proofs such dns and github.
SamPatt 5y ago
Agreed, file sharing via Keybase is a dream. It automatically creates an encrypted folder on my filesystem that is shared with the other party. Super convenient, I tried to evangelize it solely for this reason.
- jd3 5y ago
  ignoring its UX, https://upspin.io/ https://upspin.io/ is the closest alternative that i'm aware of
ashton314 5y ago
KBFS was pure magic. I wish they had kept their focus on that. Alas, all good things…
ianopolous 5y ago
You might like Peergos (disclaimer: co-founder here), an encrypted global filesystem built on ipfs - https://peergos.org https://peergos.org More detail in our book - https://book.peergos.org https://book.peergos.org We can also do signed identity proofs with better privacy than keybase's. Here's a public example https://beta.peergos.net/public/ianopolous/.profile/ids/ianopolous.Twitter.id.cbor?open=true https://beta.peergos.net/public/ianopolous/.profile/ids/iano...
- stevenicr 5y ago
  I popped over for a glance, as I have been seeing a need for something very similar. pricing 5 GBP per month - I read over that 4 times and it kept becoming 5 GB in my head... might I suggest adding $7 US per month and $80 per year perhaps. then I checked the terms and I saw UK law - which has fluctuated a lot with content that is okay and not okay.. and then the word "obscene" is in there.. and other stuff that makes me wish this was hosted elsewhere. perhaps for an extra X$ one can choose to host an instance on other locations and avoid some of the uk things I dunno.
  - ianopolous 5y ago
    Thanks for the feedback. It's mainly UK based because most of our team is UK based. Our actual hosting is in Germany. There is also the option to self-host and still be able to interact with users on other instances, including https://beta.peergos.net https://beta.peergos.net.

by mwest 5y ago

owerflov 5y ago

I use keyoxide (https://keyoxide.org https://keyoxide.org) for showing proofs such dns and github.

SamPatt 5y ago

Agreed, file sharing via Keybase is a dream. It automatically creates an encrypted folder on my filesystem that is shared with the other party. Super convenient, I tried to evangelize it solely for this reason.

jd3 5y ago
ignoring its UX, https://upspin.io/ https://upspin.io/ is the closest alternative that i'm aware of

ashton314 5y ago

KBFS was pure magic. I wish they had kept their focus on that. Alas, all good things…

ianopolous 5y ago

You might like Peergos (disclaimer: co-founder here), an encrypted global filesystem built on ipfs - https://peergos.org https://peergos.org More detail in our book - https://book.peergos.org https://book.peergos.org We can also do signed identity proofs with better privacy than keybase's. Here's a public example https://beta.peergos.net/public/ianopolous/.profile/ids/ianopolous.Twitter.id.cbor?open=true https://beta.peergos.net/public/ianopolous/.profile/ids/iano...

stevenicr 5y ago
I popped over for a glance, as I have been seeing a need for something very similar. pricing 5 GBP per month - I read over that 4 times and it kept becoming 5 GB in my head... might I suggest adding $7 US per month and $80 per year perhaps. then I checked the terms and I saw UK law - which has fluctuated a lot with content that is okay and not okay.. and then the word "obscene" is in there.. and other stuff that makes me wish this was hosted elsewhere. perhaps for an extra X$ one can choose to host an instance on other locations and avoid some of the uk things I dunno.
- ianopolous 5y ago
  Thanks for the feedback. It's mainly UK based because most of our team is UK based. Our actual hosting is in Germany. There is also the option to self-host and still be able to interact with users on other instances, including https://beta.peergos.net https://beta.peergos.net.