Hi! Thanks for featuring our little Now Lemmy Explain community here. !nowlemmyexplain
So, Lemmy soapbox a little bit:
I’ve felt that /r/eli5 was some of the best content in the Old Country, but somewhere along the way, it lost the fun aspect it once had. Everything there is so sanitized that it no longer has the feeling of community anymore.
In the age of large language models, getting a simplified summary of a complex idea is pretty much just a copypaste away, and I don’t really see the need of having a place for what ELI5 currently is when it can be automated away, but I’m willing to admit that I may be wrong.
My ultimate goal would be having a place for people to explain things that would not be possible for machines, it should be entertaining to read instead of making your eyes glaze over, because first and foremost, on Lemmy, we are rebuilding a place for specifically people to get engaged and inspired by each other, because that’s what a community is.
There’s overlap between NSQ here and NLE of course, but I think the best way to explain it (or, Now Lemmy Explain: ) is that NSQ focuses on getting any answer to simple questions, while NLE focuses on getting simple answers to any question.
So, if you have any topic you’d like to have explained, please make a post there, and we’ll all try our best.