Alright, here it is: Many's official Mastodon new post timeline-explaining flowchart.

I'm real sorry if the image description is a mess, I'm gonna try my best but understand that the flowchart is just as much of one.

If you spot behavior that doesn't match this flowchart, either
1. you're on software other than Mastodon, including forks that have some weird options
2. Mastodon has decided to change things due to a bug or feature
3. I missed something, oops. Fuck.

#FediTips

Technically this flowchart implies you can have something in the shadow realm at the same time as your home TL. However, to that I say: I will at least threaten to or joke about blocking you if you point it out now that I have done so

Also this doesn't cover blocks, hashtag follows, or probably some other shit. However, it's more complete than the last flowchart I saw.

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@manifold one could argue there are countless instances of every post in the shadow realm, unconnected to the instance you get on your home timeline
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