@tentooed I think local timeline only applies to users registered and logged on from instances that are not mastodon.social.

For example, I'm registered and logged into octodon.social. My local timeline shows me only toots made by usrs registered here.

The federated timeline shows me toots from octodon.social and mastodon.social. In theory it would show toots from any instance that octodon.social chooses to federate with.