Brutkey

Fedi.Tips
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

Everything in your main "Home" timeline on Mastodon is there for one of these reasons:

-An account you follow posted it
-An account you follow boosted it
-The post contains a hashtag you follow
-An account you follow replied to an account you also follow
-An account you follow replied to itself

Nothing else gets in your main feed, it's just these things.

If hashtags are at the end of a post they are displayed in a smaller font below the post, which some people miss.

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James Wells
@nikatjef@mastodon.acm.org

@FediTips@social.growyourown.services
I am glad you specified "home" timeline as there are multiple timelines and two of them will show content unrelated to what you listed. For example the "local" timeline shows all posts made by someone on your server. I forget one the other one is or what it shows, but it is extremely active whenever I look at it


Fedi.Tips
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

@nikatjef@mastodon.acm.org

Yeah, I've tried to go through all the different timelines in the guide at
https://fedi.tips/what-are-the-local-federated-home-timelines-how-do-i-stop-them-scrolling-too-quickly/

James Wells
@nikatjef@mastodon.acm.org

@FediTips@social.growyourown.services
Oh cool, thank you for that. I use
@apps@toot.fedilab.app so I don't see the timeline names very often, but this helps clear up some of my confusion about the differences in the timelines.