Another quick helper for people coming from the #TwitterMigration (slightly overly simplified).

Feeds:

Home = people you specifically follow, no matter what instance they "live" on

Local = the feed for the people across the same instance you're on, whether or not you follow them

Federated = public posts from people "known" to your instance, ie people on the same instance as you OR people followed by people on your instance, like a 2nd degree connection (it is NOT "every user on Mastodon).

It helps to think of Mastodon as the city, instances as neighborhoods, and the connections as the streets that link people and places.

So there are a bunch of ways to get to one destination and for people from different neighborhoods to find and make their way to each other.

So you can hang out hyperlocal (Home), on your block (Local), or wander around the city (Federated). :)

@ambercadabra that a very nice description πŸ‘πŸΌ
@ambercadabra excellent way to describe it…and it makes it all the more appealing. So is the other place the sewer through which all the toilets flush πŸ˜‡πŸ˜‚
@ambercadabra I love being able to duck into a coffee shop or quiet bar-level conversation and leave the Times Square-level discourse for when I have steeled myself.
@ambercadabra thank you for a great visualization. Please forgive one more basic question. How can I tell if I'm connected to the federated world & not stuck in my own neighborhood?
I search for people who say they are on Mastodon but get nothing. Maybe I'm missing their neighborhood connection?
(I try names, add @, try entire @domain/name thing. Still nada.)
@ambercadabra This is a nice comparison
@ambercadabra appreciate the explanation, that is helpful.
@ambercadabra Thank you - still trying to get my head around this!
@ambercadabra Home also has things that people I follow have boosted
@Kerpob Yep that too, was just keeping it over-simplified (and within character limits lol)
Mark Wyner (@[email protected])

Attached: 2 images Someone with the Github handle Cassolotl published a chart on the anatomy of Mastodon feeds. Their work is meaningful and invaluable, but as a designer I felt we needed something more aesthetic so I created this alternative for sharing. (Original version: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/6812) Update: modified description of unlisted toots because previous version was ambiguous, as pointed out by @[email protected] and @[email protected]. #MastodonTips #TwitterMigration #MastodonFeed #MastodonTimeline

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