Sonya Mann ✅Per @kodo's discussion with Gargron, a person's posts only make it to the federated timeline if someone on your instance is following that person. IMO this is a design flaw — it encourages centralization on one big instance (so that you can see entire conversations and find new people easily) even more than it encourages cross-instance links.
For me this is even more of a value-killer than not being able to bring your followers with you from instance to instance (and ironically if the latter were possible it would help with the former).
Rysiekúr (old account)@sonya it would, yes - but I guess "small steps". ;)