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If someone can explain the difference between Local and Federated in 500 characters or less that would be great because I find it completely baffling.
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Local timeline: all public posts by people on your server
Federated timeline: all public posts by people on your server and the people who you & they follow on other servers
@chr @profcarroll Does federated really involve any follows? I had content on my federated timeline even before following anyone. I think federated is just all public posts on servers that agree to connect to each other.
@BarryBadrinath @profcarroll it draws from all people that people on your server follow, as well as a few extra posts involved in resolving things like boosts and threads
if you run a single-user instance, the federated TL is pretty much the same as your Home TL.