Also, why does the federated timeline only show the same stuff as the local timeline? Shouldn't there be more? Is something broken?
@natanji There could be something broken, the mastodon.social instance has been under heavy load so you might not be seeing its updates. It has around 100 users for every 1 on other instances at the moment.
@natanji
Because mastodon is only federated with itself
see the real federation the gnu social one
http://www.fediverse.org/
also read the privacy contract of mastodon
https://mastodon.social/terms
Protect yourself and fight datamining
https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-8414-corporate_surveillance_digital_tracking_big_data_privacy
@natanji we think it's something on mastodon.social's side? vahnj should be looking into it with garg today, iirc