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

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