@Lohenglamm people you follow show up in the "Home" timeline, if you want to ignore the Federated. Federated is going to get unusably busy as the system grows, anyway. Can you imagine trying to read the equivalent on Twitter? They don't even offer that feed anymore it's too big.
@potentato Heh, well I follow a lot of very profilic tweeters over in the bad part of the internet, so I'm used to the firehose effect on Tweetdeck. The Federated TL made me feel right at home since nobody in it is a Nazi :D