INTRO TO FEDERATION:
1. "mastodon" is a piece of software that runs on a server. There's a lot of servers that run it & u can follow ppl on other servers.
2. When u follow someone from another server, your server receives their toots.
3. The federated TL is all public toots that the server receives, ie all of the toots from everyone that ppl on your server follow.
4. ERGO: if u want to see more toots in the fed TL, follow + get other ppl on your server to follow ppl from other servers!
@chr With that out of the way, a few questions:
Is there a way to pull in another servers' local timeline into the local instance's federated timeline, carte blanche?
Is there a way to subscribe to a group/hashtag on another instance and have those appear in the federated timeline?
My instance is looking really sparse, that's all.
@Motoma neither of those exist yet as far as i'm aware. they're good feature ideas though.
for now they can probably be emulated by having bots on your instance that follow all the people from a server/group/hashtag on other servers