element-hq / element-hq/synapse

Add a "What is a Matrix homeserver?" page to the Introduction section of the docs

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Description

This issue has been migrated from [#11094](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11094).

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Spun out from https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10126.

It would be nice to have a little introduction to Matrix, ecosystem concepts and where a homeserver sits in all of it, in order to give sysadmins a working model as they set things up. Currently, the docs just plainly mention that Synapse is a Matrix homeserver implementation.

We could also include the following visual aid:

![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1342360/137470787-3474d1a4-7b2f-40c3-918c-284fafd12eab.png)

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