Attempting to devise some variation of the `link=me` trick to get Mastodon to recognize my Twitter account... so far, 0/2
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@worldsendless Just use keyoxide :)
@freemo Very interesting! But that's not going to help Mastodon give me chat little green checkmark next to my my Twitter, though
Yes it basically serves the same purpose as keybase but dont in a decentralized way and was pretty much the fist and most popular keybase alternative. It is also the only/main one that is completely open source.
It works because you verify the various identities you have across the internet by directly adding it and signing in your public key using normal GPG standards. The only point of the server is that it renders the information in your public key and verifies your signature. they are really just super simply HTML front ends to render some info in your public key. As long as your public key is on a keyserver and you added the info it works.
IMO this makes it far superior to keybase despite serving a similar purpose.
