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Keyoxide is a privacy-friendly #FOSS to create and verify decentralized online identities.

Since years there have been similar tools like Keybase, but because it is provided as proprietary and centralized one, you are supposed to fully trust that it should work as expected. Keyoxide, on the other hand, is free software, therefore it is possible for anyone to audit, copy, modify the code as you want to, and run it on a server of your choice. (keyoxide.org is maintained and provided by the developers as a public server). The identities you can verify with Keyoxide include: DNS, Forgejo, GitHub, services on ActivityPub, IRC, Liberapay, OpenPGP, Reddit, Twitter, XMPP, etc.

I have known the project since a couple of years, but not used it as its concept seemed to difficult for me to understand. On Mastodon I noticed the major update for the mobile app released before FOSDEM this year, and finally gave it a try. The app is fairly easy to use, the UI is straightforward, and I successfully published my profile with it on keyoxide.org by following the instructions on UI. As I like the idea behind Keyoxide, I devoted a couple of days to the apps localization here.

Here is a link to the official profile of the project: https://keyoxide.org/project%40keyoxide.org. It should give you an impression of how Keyoxide works.

If you are going to create your own profile, I would like to recommend you to have a look at documentation first to get yourself familiar with the concept.