It's one of the paths forward. At this early stage we need to cheer all the paths, Nostr, ATproto, Pubky, Farcaster, Holepunch, the Iroh stuff, all of it. And find ways to combine strengths, or at the very least learn from the unique advantages of each.
This whole "I won't give [insert other thing] a second thought because it's too left-leaning, or blockchain-ish, or P2P-ish, or company-ish, etc..." is definitely not the way forward.