Tooting this again because of the unceasing flood of new users:
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.
@NthTensor why is it a good practice to follow as much interesting people as possible? i think that's not what is desired. federated timeline on your instance should be still an expression of the interests of the node's users and not as-populated-as-possible. the fediverse is already held together by it's federating technology.
@KurebayashiJuri see above for information about following.
@Serket88