Luscious Dick Tacoma@PypeBros the local timeline is the realtime list of toots from users on mastodon.social (or if you are on another mastodon instance, then it would be the toots from users on that instance).
The federated timeline is the firehose of realtime toots from all federated instances - mastodon.social, a.weird.earth, mastodon.art, cybre.space, and so forth.
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