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). :)
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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Allan Paterson π#FBPE #FBPPR
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Kevin Troy Darling 
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Joshua Wilner
Stephen Webb has moved
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Mark Wyner Wonβt Comply 