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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:

  1. All post title must start with "Now Lemmy Explain: "
  2. All topics are allowed (within reason) but try to avoid ones that will start a flame war.
  3. Keep your explanation concise and entertaining. Remember though, comedy is subjective.
  4. Be excellent to one another, and have fun.
  5. 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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Now Lemmy Explain: The Fediverse (self.nowlemmyexplain)
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[–] Jessica 4 points 1 year ago

Here’s my attempt to explain the fediverse:

Imagine Reddit.com was actually RedditWC.com and RedditEC.com for East and West coast. West coast would have a Seattle community and East coast would have a New York City community. You might be more interested in Seattle so you sign up at RedditWC.com.

Either way, the two sites are constantly sharing all the content created on each so they're a perfect copy of each other so you’ll still be able to participate in the New York City community. This scales to allow a California instance and a Texas instance, etc., each with their own interests and all posts and comments are being synced.

When you load up RedditWC.com, you're seeing everything created on RedditWC.com as well as up to date copies of all content everywhere else you can interact with so it still feels like a complete Reddit.com.

The crux of all of this is each instance has less traffic so the load is spread out, and if instances go offline, other instances can pick up the slack.