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Re:Setup Keybase.io, GPG and Git to sign commits on GitHub by WorldMaker on Monday August 15, 2016 @11:51AM (#12291211)
Sure. It would be great if they supported both. The suggestion is to use their tooling because it provides a lot of added value, but yes, it would be great if they also provided a standard "dumb" PGP/GPG keyserver, too.

Maybe consider contributing to the effort?

Quick searched turned up several issues tracking the question:

https://github.com/keybase/keybase-issues/issues/327

https://github.com/keybase/keybase-issues/issues/890

https://github.com/keybase/keybase-issues/issues/1266

Re:Setup Keybase.io, GPG and Git to sign commits on GitHub by davexunit on Monday August 15, 2016 @01:16PM (#12291799)
I'm not interested in giving free labor to a for-profit company whose server source code is proprietary.
Re:Setup Keybase.io, GPG and Git to sign commits on GitHub by WorldMaker on Monday August 15, 2016 @04:12PM (#12293044)
I get it. I mostly just meant contributing extra emojis to the issue tracker.

Or if you read the issues you can see that there are some genuine concerns in there that you could help contribute to that would benefit the open source community as a whole, with the side effect of simplifying things for Keybase "as well". Primarily, from skimming, it sounds like the keyserver protocols are not as well documented and standardized as one would assume, running a keyserver from a fresh/new code base is a non-trivial matter with a lot of quirks/bugs to handle. So, who knows, maybe you could contribute to better documenting keyserver quirks, and pushing for better, less quirky, keyserver standards.