@Felthry it's the service that connects your client to the actual Mastodon code running and encrypts your traffic between it without the server needing to know what the specifics of the encryption are
@Felthry it can do more than that but it's what Mastodon uses
Think of it as the thing that controls how to access content on a server using a browser
@vahnj ah, okay. I know what some of those words mean!