yes

Yeah official homeserver also acts as a bootstrap server

Official homeserver (https://phoenixim.site/) is hosted on a VPS and all homeservers are interconnected via federation

Homeserver is essentially a distributed chat relay so clients post messages to rooms and the server relays those messages to its peers

Official homeserver supports federation over onion services and dockerfile hosts homeserver as onion service that's why i added Tor as a dependency

It works similar to Matrix which is federated

I made this from scratch lol