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Now Lemmy Explain: Simple Explanation for Complex Topics

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Locked for now. Will reopen if there is interest.

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: New Rule on Cross-posting (self.nowlemmyexplain)
submitted 1 year ago by MargotRobbie to c/nowlemmyexplain
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As our community's name suggests, this is a place where "Lemmy" explains, and there are a lot of other places on Lemmy where people do a great job explaining things.

In the spirit of cooperation, here's Rule 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.

Thoughts?

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[–] Falmarri 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just wish cross posting worked better in the UI. It often brings you do other instances, or crashes jerboa.

Is there a way to do an instance relative link to a post yet?

[–] MargotRobbie 1 points 1 year ago

Because of the current limitations of x-posts, let's just do both link and paste the text in the post since that seems to be the more Lemmy way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What is the right way to cross-post here?

[–] MargotRobbie 1 points 1 year ago

Let's do both link and text.