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Now Lemmy Explain: Simple Explanation for Complex Topics - Lemmy.world

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Now Lemmy Explain: Simple Explanation for Complex Topics - Lemmy.world

Margot Robbie@lemmy.world to

New Communities@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

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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 It Like I’m 5” 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. 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.

My attempt in building a better ELI5, without the patronizing name, and with more comedic twist.

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Great name. Love it. I look forward to always being too late to explain the few things I actually know about.
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  Just come on over and start explaining everything, everybody loves explaining things.

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