Well, "just a discovery mechanism" is a bit of an understatement!

PKDNS uses literally the oldest, most decentralized, and thus, most censorship resistant form discovery on the planet. This is in contrast to Nostr which assumes a centralized trusted source, or Bluesky which explicitly provides a centralized trusted source.

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I wasn't asking about PubKy or nostr but thank you. I'm aiming to integrate Iroh into Stratum v2 and use mainline DHT for discovery. Just need to underatand the wizardry a bit more so i nake sure i'm not missing something.

It seems like mainoine DHT is the way to go for discovery of p2p.

Yes it is the best discovery, but PKARR is still part of Pubky, whether you use the other aspects or not :)

Pubky = PKARR identities + servers + indexers using an open semantic social graph

Otherwise, Iroh is very cool, but make sure you are okay with their relay tradeoffs. It operates with a CPOF by default.