For those who dont know, the federated timeline displays all the activity from all the people on other instances who are followed by people on your instance.
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It is therefore very good practice to follow as many interesting people from other instances as possible. We are the ropes binding this distributed system together.
@desk_of_jiksun I think you will find that a curated list of people you trust is a more than adequate substitute for the best algorithms.
@NthTensor perhaps, that's what I'm getting my head around (and finding very interesting), along with the other nuances of a distributed network. In contrast to Twitter, for example.