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diff --git a/docs/user_guide/timelines.md b/docs/user_guide/timelines.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d0ad95a1 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/user_guide/timelines.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +# Timelines + +You have several timelines to browse trough + +- **Timeline** aka Home Timeline - this timeline contains all posts by people you follow and your own posts, as well as posts mentioning you directly. +- **Bookmarks** all the posts you've bookmarked. You can bookmark a post by clicking the three dots on the bottom right of the post and choose Bookmark. +- **Direct Messages** all posts with `direct` scope addressed to you or mentioning you. +- **Public Timelines** all public posts made by users on the instance you're on +- **The Whole Known Network** also known as **TWKN** or **Federated Timeline** - all public posts known by your instance. Due to nature of the network your instance may not know *all* the posts on the network, so only posts known by your instance are shown there. + +Note that by default you will see all posts made by other users on your Home Timeline, this contrast behavior of Twitter and Mastodon, which shows you only non-reply posts and replies to people you follow. You can change said behavior in the [settings](settings.md#filtering). + +By default instances will try to send activities (e.g. posts, favorites, etc.) up to 7 days or until the target server received them. For this reason posts that are up to 7 days old and your server didn't know about yet can pop up on your timeline. This is the default behaviour and can be changed by your admin. |