Integration with mastodon social Mastodon / GNUSocial

[fr1t2]

See a definite need for this sweet service integrated into GNUsocial as well as mastodon.

[zQueal]

Added to #518

[Sigafoos]

I already did this in an unofficial way by tooting a signed message but it would be great to be able to have it displayed on my Keybase profile (i.e. I had to search for that way back in my timeline)

[simon-brooke]

I've done the tooting a signed message hack by following the recipe here; but it would be really nice if this was integrated into the keybase.io web app.

[lx4r]

Is there any update on this? Mastodon seems to have gained some momentum in the last days ...

[eloquence]

Indeed, per https://mnm.social/ there are now about 1.4M accounts on Mastodon (active users is probably ~1/10 of that). Moreover, given the federated model, verifying that you are indeed person X on instance Y is a great use case for Keybase. Ideally this would be done in a 1:n way, where I can link up as many accounts as I want.

[KyleRConway]

I support this. I must say that one of the first things I did when joining keybase was to try to add my Mastodon account. Was disappointed I couldn't. And, as @eloquence notes above, this would help with verification of users across various mastodon instances.

[Laurelai]

We need to be able to integrate this

[jconnary]

Would love to see this happen.

[petjal]

Seems like a good idea all around.

[codesections]

I'll also add that this would likely see a lot of use from high-profile Mastodon users (as the join the platform) because Mastodon lacks an official way to "verify" accounts—there's no equivalent of Twitter's blue check mark. So, anyone who is worried about impersonation would be very interested in keybase.

As an example of this Wil Wheaton recently registered @wilw@mastodon.cloud and had difficulty verifying himself. He eventually used the keybase workaround described above, which resulted in many new people hearing about keybase. But I'm sure the effect would have been much larger with official support, and other high-profile users might not be as willing to use a workaround.

[timnolte]

👍

[ianchanning]

There's a typo in the title: Should be GNU Social instead of GUN Social

[kenguest]

I also encourage this endeavour.