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Keybase Teams vs Mattermost: What are the differences?
What is Keybase Teams? Slack for the whole world, except end-to-end encrypted across all your devices. Keybase is for anyone. Imagine a Slack for the whole world, except end-to-end encrypted across all your devices. Or a Team Dropbox where the server can't leak your files or be hacked.
What is Mattermost? Open-source, self-hosted, Slack alternative. Mattermost is modern communication from behind your firewall.
Keybase Teams and Mattermost can be categorized as "Group Chat & Notifications" tools.
Keybase Teams and Mattermost are both open source tools. Mattermost with 15.4K GitHub stars and 3.14K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Keybase Teams with 5.16K GitHub stars and 541 GitHub forks.
Uber Technologies, DuckDuckGo, and Kanteron Systems are some of the popular companies that use Mattermost, whereas Keybase Teams is used by Even Financial, Sitewards Gmbh, and Tagup Inc.. Mattermost has a broader approval, being mentioned in 38 company stacks & 24 developers stacks; compared to Keybase Teams, which is listed in 6 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.
Mattermost sports higher performance, uses Postgres, is a pure server side application not using up too much of system resources on the client side, and gives an overall enterprise grade impression in general.
Updates go smooth without a hassle, everything is organised logically, and the integration with the OS is absolutely stable. Apart from that, the underlying runtimes and code are mature, proven and stable.
The developers are maybe a bit more cautious in regard to introducing new features, but they maintain a stable experience, not breaking the codebase in order to hastily implement bells and whistles, which are not yet ready for production. Documentation and debugging are fantastic, so running this in enterprise production environment is absolutely approved of.
Keybase is a powerful and secure team-organizing software. And because Keybase is so transparently good at what it does, Keybase is a foundational software that facilitates the future of work: effective, inclusive, secure Remote Teams.
Keybase is a free, end-to-end encrypted, open-source program with almost limitless flexibility. Each Keybase user or team is a unique cryptographic identity. Each message or interaction that a user has with a team or other user, is verifiable and digitally-signed. Custom combinations of users/teams/bots, can be designed to catalyze Remote Teams of all kinds, this process can also be automated. Keybase includes Git integration for versioning, bots from multiple platforms to facilitate audio/video-conferencing, a Cryptocurrency wallet, and many advanced privacy features to make you more or less traceable.
Services like Slack and Discord are centralized platforms that perform analytics on your behavior and can sell or leak this data to 3rd parties. Any audio/video features available within Slack or Discord, are bound to be less secure and less flexible than excellent alternatives such as Jitsi. Slack and Discord do have a fun, causal feel to them, which can potentially facilitate social engagement in certain conditions (also many users are already on these platforms).
Centralized and Proprietary team platforms such as Discord and Slack have a large market presence (at least in the USA) based on their first-mover advantage, name recognition, and network effects from size. However these products do not have the flexibility or power of Keybase. Keybase excels on its own excellence, and also has an open and active developer community.
Find us on Keybase: @remotorteam (Keybase username) @remotor.public (Public Keybase Team)
Pros of Keybase Teams
- End-to-End encryption9
- Encypted Git repos8
- KBFS7
- Crypto wallet5
- Free5
- Open source5
- API interface4
- Written in Go3
- Explosion1
Pros of Mattermost
- Open source60
- On-premise deployment41
- Free26
- Built using golang22
- Fast and easy to use21
- Docker image provided for easy setup14
- Full text search14
- Built using react12
- Supports multiple teams11
- Search and data archiving11
- Very professional11
- Keeps us focused, effective, concise8
- Clean and simple look7
- Integration with Gitlab7
- Webhooks support7
- Well documented6
- Use #Hashtags like Twitter6
- Import Slack logs3
- Reactive community and ease of use3
- Self managed data2
- On-premises Deployment2
- Secure2
- Markdown support1
- On premise installation1
- Kanban1
- Checklists1
- Slack-compatible integrations1
- Easy webhook integration1
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Cons of Keybase Teams
Cons of Mattermost
- Less integrations and plugins than slack2
- Many basic features are enterprise only2
- Custom sidewide themes only in enterprise2
- Basic permissions only in enterprise edition1
- Not compatible with Telegram keys, which used by FSB1