It keeps sounding like Relays are the elements that could use a #pubky most. #noobthoughts
lol, brand new, still in beta. It’s basically a P2P protocol for “home servers” (just think relays) and then personal “domains” (think keys). Similar in concept to Nostr, except the record of users is placed in the DHT, so it’s insanely censorship resistant and if you ever want anyone to find you or your content, nobody can take down your DNS record because it’s stored through the BitTorrent network.
So there are solid censorship resistant benefits to pubky, but the server model is more traditional, where you don’t really have control, you are just using their server space. You don’t sign every message like you do in #Nostr. Great for UX because you don’t have to keep keys online, but a trade off on trust because each “relay” has the ability to arbitrarily change your messages (like Twitter or any other server).
So my take on Pubky v Nostr nostr:nprofile1qqsw4v882mfjhq9u63j08kzyhqzqxqc8tgf740p4nxnk9jdv02u37ncxzszx8:
the trust relationship is worse in Pubky in some regards because all activity isn’t signed by the user, decentralization makes the likelihood of abuse slightly higher, but the UX of just having to “sign in” and it works as expected and you can use as many clients and servers as you like, plus run your own at home is a solid benefit, and the censorship resistance of the DHT is probably best you can get.
Honestly I think they can be used in tandem where each is optimized for a particular piece of the puzzle. Delays and DHT domains could be used with Nostr. It’s a matter of the right tool for the right job. Curious how each will be used in the long run. Watching both closely
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Can't we just use the keys interchangeably with pubky protocol?
I don’t see why you wouldn’t be able to add both connection methods into a client and reach relays over the DHT. Or just use the pubky domains as a way to know how to reach the relay, and then the relay can bounce around to as many servers or locations as they like and the client will still find them without any needed update from the user.
> use the pubky domains as a way to know how to reach the relay
Yes :110percent: what I'm thinking.
I'm just also :110percent: the guy to be naive about that idea working as well as I think it would.