I’ve got my defaults set to “all” and “active”. It’s my understanding that “all” shows instances we’re federated with, whereas “local” will show only Hexbear posts. I am seeing some non-hexbear posts on “all”, but it’s mostly Hexbear. Are we simply the most powerful posters and therefore take up the front page or is it weighted behind the scenes to still favor local?
No complaints, I’m enjoying federation so far. Mostly because I’m only seeing posts from other instances talking about how cool we are
If you want to filter, Subscribed is 100% the way to go!
You can still sub to specific comms from other instances and only see those. there might be some of interest at lemmygrad or lemmy.ml