@kas it is the same mechanism as sameAs, but I think the semantics of a pub is different so I wanted to handle them in a special way. And yes sbot also works. You don't need to run this module or anything, its just to help me test for now.
This is an implementation of pubs as a second device. Right now the benifits are now that big, but over time I think this should help us move pubs to a more natural place. This together with user invites.
And regarding the address format then both works. net: is multiserver format. The address reply will be replaced with ssb-device-address in the future, but for now it is needed.
Thanks :)