Is a country-specific instance restricted? Maybe. But it would be kind of neat to have a local timeline that was tied to a place where I live. What if there was an instance that was primarily Cascadia?
@ihorner Kind of a "Show me Toots within 50 km of me" thing. Or 500km. Neat idea.
@beej I would be all over a Canada feed at the very least
@beej Rather than restricting instances, could location information be added to the toots, like twitter does? Then location based tracking could be opt-in, and you could still make a federated feed based on geofencing.