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Agreed! I started a community a couple days ago and I also browsed through the descriptions of other communities to get an idea of what we should put in one (I have no experience moderating subreddits or anything like that) and I found that many had little to nothing in the sidebar.
In case this is of any use to you or others, here's what I've found to work well:
Good formatting also makes it look clean and professional.
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!skeptic@lemmy.world
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This is super helpful, thank you very much.
Did you have to do anything special to start one? I just tried and I keep getting an error: {"error":"rate_limit_error"} when I hit create.
It was actually easy to create it (I’m on lemm.ee instance) the hard part is I think just being able to maintain engagement.