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 Reading data: Timelines
 -----------------------
 This function allows you to access the timelines a logged in
-user could see, as well as hashtag timelines and the public timeline.
+user could see, as well as hashtag timelines and the public (federated)
+and local timelines.
 
 .. _timeline():
 .. automethod:: Mastodon.timeline