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New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Keybase Alternatives?

Ask HN: Keybase Alternatives?
543 by capableweb | 130 comments on Hacker News.
Since Keybase is being acquired by Zoom (see https://ift.tt/3bbkVJc ), it would be lazy to not start looking at alternatives already I myself mostly use the following features from Keybase: Chat, KBFS, Git repositories and encrypting messages sent out-of-band via PGP in Keybase (and the various cryptographic tools [signing, validation etc]) What alternatives have the features outlined above, but are ideally either FOSS or at least not run by a for-profit company? I mainly used Keybase to make using those features easier, so please don't suggest the cli of gnupgp (or similar) as alternatives.

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