It is useful. Nostr can run over anything.
Mainline DHT means nothing if it can be easily detected and censored.
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> Mainline DHT means nothing if it can be easily detected and censored.
Couldn’t you say the same thing about Bitcoin?
You could.
And this is why Tor/I2P is great, with bridges and other censorship evasion tools.
And also, Blockstream Satellite is another way you can interact with the network even if that were to happen.
So you could have the benefits of DHT DNS and Nostr if you used the DHT with Tor I guess.
The thing is, I don’t think the DNS lookups even happen very often
Which it is not. If you've put your own homeserver up behind your PKDNS then it'll be an order of magnitude harder to censor your pubky presence than it will your nostr presence. Not to say either would be a cakewalk, but you can't in good faith argue that nostr as it stands today is stronger in terms of censorship resistance.
They can censor your homeserver. Or the internet connections of who host Mainline DHT servers. So on.
DHT requires a complicated system that is easy to detect. A Nostr note however can be sent through any channel and one channel is all you need.
Ok that's factually wrong on I think potentially every count.
Joe this is the most fruitful discussion regardless of misunderstandings.
I think it’s really helpful to talk about Nostr vs pubky in terms of “can you build one with the other?”