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@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

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On a forum, you have lots of members talking to each other.

On a Fediverse server, you have lots of people mostly talking to people on other servers.

Not all servers are themed, for example mas.to, mastodon.social, mastodon.online, mstdn.social are just general servers.

The ones that are themed may do so for lots of different reasons such as agreed rules, shared identity (shown in the address ending), funding (if you're a member of a co-operative) etc.

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