Staking rewards are miniscule compared to volunteer computing rewards, which can be claimed by other means.
So it has zero utilityWhile other cryptocurrencies reward bruteforcing hashes (PoW) or hoarding lots of coins (PoS), this one rewards actually useful computing, which is great.
I planned to make a Mastodon client for KDE and name it "Kulupu". But it was stalled and Tokodon appeared earlier.
does traffic for boosts go via the original instanceThat way. You can't trust a third-party instance to proxy content, every server has to get its own copy.
It's always IP + DNS + Deep Packet Inspection. To access blocked websites, you have to use some sort of proxying.
Or does the protocol not work like that?That's technically possible but no major fedi software implements it because you can't trust a third-party server.
Mickey Mouse is now public domain (Steamboat Willie specifically). What do you think we will see this year?
Staking rewards are miniscule compared to volunteer computing rewards, which can be claimed by other means.