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this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2023
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Now Lemmy Explain: Simple Explanation for Complex Topics
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Inspired by r/eli5 and Casually Explained.
Now Lemmy Explain: Starting the "Now Lemmy Explain" community.
I've always felt like the name "Explain Like I'm 5" is patronizing (yes, I know, it's from an Office joke). I want to see a community that's better and more entertaining to read than how it was on reddit.
Now Lemmy Explain: The Rules:
- All post title must start with "Now Lemmy Explain: "
- All topics are allowed (within reason) but try to avoid ones that will start a flame war.
- Keep your explanation concise and entertaining. Remember though, comedy is subjective.
- Be excellent to one another, and have fun.
- If you see someone else do a great job explaining a particular topic, you are encouraged to cross-post it here, but be sure to credit the original poster for their contributions.
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Lemmy is a link/content aggregator in the same vein as Hacker News and Reddit, however, Lemmy is federated, which means that it is a decentralized group different communities hosted on different servers (called instances), and that while the individual of each instance has more power, their actions do not affect other instances, causing the formation of diverse communities with different cultures to be more likely compared to centralized services like Reddit.
It's really a beautiful idea in its simplicity.