It's actually kind of interesting that me mentioning bubbles resulted in an immediately political assumption; I guess it shows how out of touch I am with mainstream Twitter.
It's actually kind of interesting that me mentioning bubbles resulted in an immediately political assumption; I guess it shows how out of touch I am with mainstream Twitter.
A newly created Mastodon instance by default federates with everyone in that allows messages and following from and to every other instance.
But it's federated timeline has no posts from other instances, because that view only shows posts that the instance actually sees. It only shows what people on the same instance actually follow, because otherwise there is no reason for the posts to be sent to it.
My instance bans the sort of instance described in the sibling comment to yours, like qoto (who advertised their Mastodon as "free speech twitter"... on twitter ads)