Because Mainline DHT consists of millions of nodes providing censorship resistance and Nostr has like 20.
Because there are no meaningful advantages to using the secp curve Nostr uses.
Nostr could change to use the same ed curve though, to also use Mainline DHT, but it breaks everything in Nostr, and then people will also realize they don't need the nostr relay model at all, and then they will realize, oh, Pubky already figured all of this out.
Nostr’s model is relay-centric and user-driven, while Pubky’s is DHT-centric and infrastructure-driven. Both allow for decentralization, but the locus of control — explicit relay choice versus implicit DHT routing — differs fundamentally.
The ease of spinning up relays in Nostr empowers users to shape the network’s decentralization, provided they take advantage of this flexibility. In Pubky, decentralization is inherent due to the DHT, but user control is more abstracted. Ultimately, both systems benefit from low barriers to node participation, but the practical degree of decentralization depends on how users and operators engage with these options
I'd love to dig deeper but you left me hanging with the invite code, so there's that.
>provided they take advantage of this flexibility
Key caveat there I think.
