Kale New folks coming through the door, please be aware there's an option to content-warning tag your toots and it's fucking beautiful
Also, hello, hi
Also to explain some concepts (as I see them):
Your HOME TIMELINE - is your toots + your friends toots + whatever they Boost (which is RTs)
Your LOCAL TIMELINE - is all the toots that are on your instance (server!)
Your FEDERATED TIMELINE - is all the toots that are on your federation (clump of instances)
Yes, you CAN talk to other people on other instances, but you need to address them in full, which includes their instance name
Like this, for one of my fav folks:
Tilman Schmidt@DarkestKale Revelant to say here: You have to write "@ linkedoranean @ mastodon.art", but it shows up just as "@ linkedoranean". So it looks ugly while you type, but not for other people :)