Vincent is a user on chaos.social. You can follow them or interact with them if you have an account anywhere in the fediverse.
I made a flow chart of which Mastodon posts end up in which timelines!
So, you can see how each instance will have a different local timeline, and even a slightly different federated timeline - and you can see why the federated timeline moves so much faster than the local one, too.
@cassolotl
Why don't instances swap known-instance-lists? Is it desirable to limit the amount of known instances?
