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In response to "When I click on "federated," it's tons and tons of posts that never stop loading. It might be the "local" feed, but it's really hard to tell. There's definitely a difference betw local and home. -- nm*" by marum scarum

The federated timeline is sort of like an aggregated RSS feed from all the connected networks. Like a firehose.

Posted by Beryllium (aka grayman) Oct 21 '21, 09:46

The intent is to enable discovery of new people to follow. Once you follow them, they should show up in the Home timeline. The Local timeline would be ones you follow on the same server as yourself.

At least that's my understanding of how things work. I could be wrong.

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It helped a lot to restrict it to English. :-) -- nm - marum scarum Oct 21, 10:05
It's difficult to read, though; it keeps jumping. -- nm - marum scarum Oct 21, 09:49 1
- That might be a web interface issue. I tried it in the Amaroq app just now and there wasn't any jumping. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 21, 09:56

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The federated timeline is sort of like an aggregated RSS feed from all the connected networks. Like a firehose.

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