In Pubky, your public key is your self-sovereign domain name. This is accomplished with Public Key Addressable Resource Records (PKARR) acting DNS records that you control within Mainline DHT nodes.
People like to cast a lot of doubt on DHTs as a solution for decentralization, but we have been asserting that this method is best because Mainline DHT consists of 'bajillions' of nodes and is 'literally' the most decentralized and censorship-resistant network on the internet.
Are these exaggerations?
Below, Ar Nazeh, from the Pubky team at Synonym, provides some reproducible research you might appreciate.
If you want to read about Mainline DHT censorship resistance to Sybil attacks we wrote something here:
https://github.com/pubky/mainline/blob/dev/docs/censorship-resistance.md
If you want to verify the DHT size yourself, run this script and read about the methodology here:
https://github.com/pubky/mainline/blob/dev/docs/dht_size_estimate.md#see-it-yourself
TLDR?
Mainline DHT is huge, extremely fast, rock-solid reliable, and hasn't gotten any smaller.
If DHT is so big how come most common people has never heard of it. Or maybe we have but just are oblivious to it.
Any particular brand, product, or protocol that uses DHT to where common people can identify with it
Bittorrent.. that is why it is so big, because it had product market fit for 15 years already.
DHT means distributed hash table and is what torrents use to find peers to download content from. You might have heard of torrents because of The Pirate Bay or in the context of downloading large files in general.
What’s the main argument against DHTs for decentralization?
Sir, this is in the links :)
https://github.com/pubky/mainline/blob/dev/docs/censorship-resistance.md
You caught me replying too fast 👀