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how do i get to see those here so i could add or follow? any ideas buddy @commandelicious ?

@egoleo in the local timeline you see the posts of those posting on the local instance/server. The federated list is all the servers connected to this one.
Hashtags are a bit more important that on twitter, I have as example as another tab open

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