I just find the federated timeline a good way to find new people. Because everyone is stuffed onto the flagship instance, there’s prolly lots on the local timeline. But not so for smaller or newer instances.
That much I know but I guess it's somewhat wild to me that you would subscribe to a Lemmy community off mastodon. People there seems a bit off
EDIT: Lots of morons below are taking my comment to mean that I'm surprised they could not that they would (want to) which are different words that mean different things.
Everybody and their grandma understands how federation works on here, you ain't smart for figuring it out. All blocked.
Nothing magical about it, it's just federation, that's not what I was referencing in my comment - my interest was more about a potential culture clash - despite what the hordes of retards replying above seems to want to frame it as.