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I sometimes wonder what would have happened to keybase chat, had keybase not been acquired-hired by zoom during the pandemic and all their old products effectively abandoned. Their security posture was not as good as signal (as far as I could see, anyway) and they were doing some deeply silly things with cryptocurrency (but then, so are signal!) but I really liked the way their software had an extremely short time between installation and chatting, because you didn’t need to jump through any account registration hoops. Installation asked for a username, generated a key-pair, and you were away. You could supply a phone number, or a password, or an email address, but they were all additional and optional ways to identify yourself and aid with account recovery if necessary, etc. All you actually needed was a compatible network connected device.