Because I'm an easily confused doofus, I've taken to thinking about Mastodon like:
Home: My neighborhood
Local timeline: My Zip Code
Federated timeline: The Whole Friggin' World
Instances: A parallel universe/AU
@Mocharaid Thank goodness! I'm waiting for someone to correct me, but for now that's how it makes sense in my brain
@Trungles huh, thats actually a real good way of explaining it. I'll use this when trying to get friends to join now!
Good job otherwise!! <3
@Trungles i think you should think of instances as other zip codes. thats a pretty good analogy
@Trungles well. Now I'm going to do this.
@Trungles that sounds like a great interpretation. I'm still not sure what I want to do here yet. I'm not as entrenched as I am with Twitter yet
@Trungles Think of each instance as islands, some are linked by bridges, some bridges are exclusive to locals only. So home is your island street, timeline is the local paper, federated time line is national paper.
@Trungles Thank you! That's actually really helpful to me haha 👍