In my experience, it was a great way to kill a lot of brain cells really fast in exchange for a weird, strange trip.
Don't do it.
Okay, so, here me out.
I ain't no fancy neuroscience PHD major or nothin', but...
Back in the day I was really into the band Radiohead and I was smoking a lot of...well, let's just say "the Devil's Lettuce".
Radiohead released an album called Kid A and it was absolutely phenomenal. Well, sure as shit, someone on the internet found out something really interesting about that album. If you played two separate copies of that album from two different audio sources, and you started one copy precisely 17 seconds after the first, it would create some really trippy harmonic sounds and audio effects. It was dubbed Kid 17 by a small cadre of fans.
I know this isn't necessarily an answer to your question, but just a personal anecdote. I feel like it's kind of relevant here.
I'd like to believe that congress would never allow him to change the constitution and subvert due process, but you just never know what might happen with this guy.
Writing a catchy sidebar and finding masthead images for your community are the hardest part. Read the Lemmy help doc about markdown formatting and familiarize yourself with it.
When you finally create your community and settle on a name that isn't taken on this instance, or any other, make posts that advertise you are looking for moderators, graphic designers, et al, and use the sticky post option.
When you find and vet potential mods for your community, make chat group off-site so you can discuss your community moderation in real-time. Discord or Element would be my recommendations.
As for promoting your community, there are communities that specifically cater to stuff like that where you can freely advertise your new community. Your first stop should posting in !newcommunities@lemmy.world
Another thing that helped me was reaching out to moderators of other communities that I liked and asking if they wanted to "parter" with mine. Basically what partnering is you throw up a link to their's in your sidebar and they do the same for you.
Hope this helps. It's not as confusing as it sounds. Good luck!
Content moderation isn't necessarily a bad thing. Just be glad Reddit and Lemmy are transparent about it unlike certain Musk and Zuck-owned websites...
Now they just laze around dreaming about days-gone-by...and occasionally catching a rat.
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