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The major thing it does wrong is that it mounts the directory in the fs root, rather than my homedir. That means it was effectively invisible (if it's not in my homedir, I never see it), so I never used it. Dropbox, on the other hand, is always right in my face at ~/Dropbox.

It's too bad, because kbfs really gets many things right.

it's just fuse, right? looks like you can control the mountpoint: https://github.com/keybase/kbfs/blob/master/kbfsfuse/main.go

You can fix that with a trivial symlink.

can you not just mount --bind as needed?

    mkdir ~/keybase && sudo mount --bind /keybase ~/keybase
puts it in my homedirectory.
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