@feditips Yes, I understand that the servers don't only talk to themselves :P I was thinking tons of servers federating together to form a fuzzy-boundary topic-specific network.

But I am confused. Could you explain the difference between phone/email servers and Fediverse servers? I'm trying to figure out why one is usually generic (eg gmail, Yahoo) while the other is very interest-specific.

In other words, IMO servers do feel like forums that can federate with tons of similar forums :P