> Mastodon, instead, has an extra layer between your network and the whole world: messages from people on your server. This is called the local timeline This i

> Mastodon, instead, has an extra layer between your network and the whole world: messages from people on your server. This is called the local timeline This is oddly phrased and does not correspond to technical reality. Mastodon is a system of accounts that post messages that are delivered directly to followers, be they on your or other servers. Everything else is basically cosmetic. The local timeline is just a way to have a look into all public posts that originated on your server, the federated timeline is a look into all public posts that your server has received.