:dragnpats: kɜ:ʳ :cydr_a: is a user on cybre.space. You can follow them or interact with them if you have an account anywhere in the fediverse.

If someone can explain the difference between Local and Federated in 500 characters or less that would be great because I find it completely baffling.

:dragnpats: kɜ:ʳ :cydr_a: @chr

@profcarroll

Local timeline: all public posts by people on your server

Federated timeline: all public posts by people on your server and the people who you & they follow on other servers

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@chr Decentralization requires a level of necessary complexity but I can how people will adapt to it.Thanks!

@chr @profcarroll Does federated really involve any follows? I had content on my federated timeline even before following anyone. I think federated is just all public posts on servers that agree to connect to each other.

@BarryBadrinath @profcarroll it draws from all people that people on your server follow, as well as a few extra posts involved in resolving things like boosts and threads

if you run a single-user instance, the federated TL is pretty much the same as your Home TL.