The "Federated #timeline" can only become useful (a success function) if it's possible to:

1) Effectively filter languages, and
2) Filter by hashtag(s), and
3) Make saved variants of the combination of 1) and 2) that can be easily reused

A tabbed or prev/next inferface and/or "carousel" function might let us conveniently switch the column view between such variants.

Filter/"variant" examples:

"English" + "#ITsecurity"
"Scandinavian" + "local news"
"German" + "EU" + "legislation"

#Mastodon

@ZeniorXV Combination of all the three your points can currently be done in #AndStatus at least with #Twitter, where language selection can be a part of a query string, see https://github.com/andstatus/andstatus/issues/442
Not very convenient to configure, but it works and syncs automatically!