I’m thinking of migrating my account here to another one because I want to use @ StewartLynch instead of this one as my handle (that is what I am everywhere else). At the same time, I am wondering of mastodon.social is the right instance for iOS devs. Any thought on the best instance or does it matter?
@rhett Thanks, I know about that instance and am considering it, but is it any better than the one I am on? Should I care?

@slynch @rhett You should really only care if you want a more curated local timeline.

I run iosdev.space and would be more than happy to chat about any questions you have about the instance.

@heyjaywilson @rhett Thanks Jay. Can you tell me more about what a more curated local timeline means? I plan to only follow iOS Devs on all instances, so I thought that I would only see their posts regardless. Am I wrong?

@slynch @rhett You have 3 timelines on mastodon, your following, local, and federated. The following is pretty self explanatory.

The local timeline is every post from people who belong to the instance whether your following them or not. So this could be useful if you just wanna see what others are posting.

The federated timeline are posts from people who are followed by other people on the instance so you can see more posts across the fedi-verse

@slynch @rhett

Ex: I don't follow everyone on the iosdev.space but I do want to see what all is going down cause maybe I'm missing something or maybe i want to keep scrolling then I can toggle to the local timeline

@heyjaywilson @rhett Got it. Thanks, worth considering then.