Several other teams moved to a platform that resembles Keybase called Matrix. Fosscad, the second-largest 3D-printed gun group on Keybase, with nearly 5,000 members, is still up and running, though it has plans to move elsewhere when the ban is enforced. Fewer than a fifth of its members have joined, so far.
KEYBASE FILES SOFTWARE
In advance of the planned purge, Deterrence Dispensed migrated from Keybase on January 20, and deleted archives of the team’s chats, settling on a new self-hosted chat server using the open-source software Rocketcat. Capitol on January 6.īreaking down the technology, the legality, and the ideology of a growing movement. Roughly 11,000 members joined between October 5 and the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Its membership increased from some 500 users in July 2019 to nearly 27,000 in January of this year.
Deterrence Dispensed, an informal group of online activists who make and distribute files to 3D-print guns, operates one of the largest “teams” on Keybase. They took advantage of the platform’s encrypted messaging to crowdsource design tweaks and plot the group’s next projects, and its file-sharing capabilities to refine blueprints. As The Trace reported in 2019, 3D-printed gun groups found refuge on Keybase after a wave of bans from more widely used social media sites like Twitter, YouTube, and Reddit. “We have informed that we will discontinue hosting them in the coming days,” a spokesperson told The Trace, adding that the rule change was part of an effort to bring the company’s acceptable use guidelines in line with those followed by Zoom, which acquired Keybase last summer.Īssuming the company does indeed follow through, the most popular creators of 3D-printed firearms on the internet will be moving to a new home - again. Two months later, Keybase has yet to enforce the rule change. On December 4, 2020, Keybase, an encrypted chat and file-sharing service, made a quiet change to its acceptable use guidelines: It would no longer permit users to post weapons content, including instructions for making 3D-printed guns on the platform.
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