As a follow up to our previous announcement post, we have now set up a page to display every community that is hidden for our local users.

As explained on that page:

Programming.dev will hide political communities, NSFW/pornographic communities and communities that have a majority of their content produced by bots. While a community is hidden, it and its posts and comments will not show up in post feeds or in the search results unless you have explicitly subscribed to it. Communities themselves currently do not show up in community search results, this may change in the future; see #2943.

Users can subscribe to a hidden community to remove the hidden effect status of a community, however it can be difficult for a user to find out which communities are due to them not being searchable.

  • muhyb@programming.dev
    1·
    6 days ago

    Is there a way for Lemmy (or for this instance) to set a rule for profiles to show their posts if they posted in one of these hidden communities? Otherwise these are hidden too and can be seen from another instance on our profiles but not from here.

    • UlrikHD@programming.devOP
      1·
      5 days ago

      I don’t believe the system is that granular. If you’re posting in a community that is now hidden I would recommend you to subscribe to it if you want to continue to see it.

      • muhyb@programming.dev
        1·
        5 days ago

        Subscription is not the problem. My problem is, if I post on some of these hidden communities, I cannot see that post on my profile if I visit my profile page inside this instance but I can see those posts if I visit my profile page from another instance.

        So I want to be able to see my posts with the hidden ones when I visit my profile. It’s completely fine if someone from this instance cannot see them.

        • UlrikHD@programming.devOPEnglish
          2·
          4 days ago

          If you can’t see posts you make on hidden communities that you are subscribed to on your profile, that sounds like a possible bug, and I’d encourage you to report the issue to the Lemmy repo

  • Die4Ever@programming.dev
    51·
    10 days ago

    Communities themselves currently do not show up in community search results, this may change in the future; see #2943.

    The linked issue was just closed as not planned. Maybe some comments in there could explain how we all want these features to work? The current solution seems a little suboptimal. Maybe hidden communities in search results should have an icon to show they’re hidden.

  • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
    3·
    9 days ago

    there are no bots posting to [email protected] and the selfhosted.forum/gearhead.town/metacritics.zone communities since at least November of last year. Could that restriction be lifted?

    Specific to emacs: maybe it would be better to outright move the community to programming.dev?

  • Zink@programming.dev
    2·
    10 days ago

    This seems like an excellent way to handle things, especially now with the list that makes it easy to customize that we each see.

    Thanks!

      • CameronDev@programming.dev
        4·
        9 days ago

        Yeah, of course, but if p.d is trying to set sensible defaults its reasonable to suggest wildcarding that entire instance.

        • Ategon@programming.devM
          4·
          9 days ago

          Not possible in lemmy atm past just rehiding everything from the instance every so often

          edit: just did another round of hiding things from lemmynsfw, should be reflected in the hidden communities doc

  • andioop@programming.devEnglish
    11·
    10 days ago

    Users can subscribe to a hidden community to remove the hidden effect status of a community

    So if a user subscribes to a hidden community, it will not be hidden for them anymore. But will it be unhidden for everyone else too? Would it start showing up in local feeds?