Cas is a user on cybre.space. You can follow them or interact with them if you have an account anywhere in the fediverse.

I made a flow chart of which Mastodon posts end up in which timelines!

So, you can see how each instance will have a different local timeline, and even a slightly different federated timeline - and you can see why the federated timeline moves so much faster than the local one, too.

cybre.space/media/K8v28fVPxaOC