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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: WebSocket (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

When you visit a website your browser speaks with the server in http. It is structured in requests and responses. You request a text, you get it. You request to upload an image, it is done. Very useful, but what if you wanted to get a live feed of things. Imagine you wanted to chat. You could send many requests always asking "is there a new message?" and always getting "no". That's not good, with a websocket your webbrowser and the server establish a live connection. Now they can send and receive small pieces of information. For chatting, games, auctions and many other things websockets are useful.