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@IgnisIncendio

I agree it's not exact analogy but I think it gets across the most important point.

Servers aren't forums or subreddits, they're mainly gateways onto the wider network.

Servers have a Local timeline and their own standards of behaviour, but most of the time most conversations will be with people on other servers rather than within a server.

If servers were only talking to themselves, they would be in danger of being bought by Elon Musk etc.

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Ignis Incendio

@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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