I made a diagram to help you understand how the different timelines/columns work:

https://techn.ical.ist/assets/help.svg https://techn.ical.ist/media/zhoMEHOzhT2r6zlz034

@vhf I thought u got all toots from instances that any user in ur own instance follows a user in? If that makes sense ...
@abekonge Makes sense but that's not the case. It would make everything blow up. :)
@vhf so if you have a single user instance your federated feed is identical to your home feed?