mastodon.world is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
Generic Mastodon server for anyone to use.

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Nadru

Did I get this right? The federation timeline on my local server is populated by posts of users followed by someone on my server or replying to someone on my server?

@Nadru precisely, also boosted by people that others on your server follow.

@BeAware Thanks, for the reply. Now it's a bit clearer.

@Nadru Yeah, usually following will trigger the crawl, and then even though the user is not followed anymore, the server will still crawl that user.
At least, that is what happened in my instance.

@aku Thanks for the reply. I'm starting to understand the system better.