(Don’t ask how)

I imagine you just couldn’t find the words at the time but I would have, with relative accuracy, summed this up as:

“Each server on that web can communicate with every other server on that web by using ‘secret’ information to determine a path to get there”

Each federated service is on its own web

I know you said simplification to the point of inaccuracy, but while I’m being pedantic:

“Each federated service is on its own web, but imagine they overlap with each other in such a way to bleed into a single web”