If this is happening to you, go ahead and click on the world icon on the right. This shows you your Federated feed. Note that this is also running behind. In our case now 12hr behind. This is because there is too much work for the server to do and something has to give.

So hang on here… Mastodon has things called queues which are... queues for handling jobs the server needs to do.
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Every job has to line up at the back of the queue and the server services the jobs one after another. When things are working right the server has plenty of time to handle each job and the queues are very short. Everyone is happy.

But when there is too much work to do and not enough server power, the queues can back up. That is what is happening to your Federated timeline.
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Still there?… Mastodon uses different queues for tasks of varying importance. The most important queues get taken care of first. It’s like boarding group 1. Well, back in boarding group 4 and 5 are the jobs that fetch information from the other servers and mange # searches.

Wait what?... fetching information from other servers? OK…
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The way Mastodon works is that everyone’s data is stored on their own instance server. When you publish a post it is stored on your server, but it is also stored on the server of EVERYONE WHO FOLLOWS YOU. That is, it is sent (Federated) to the followers server and stored there too.
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