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Can I hide my community from feeds? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by 2910000@lemmy.world to c/support@lemmy.world

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I created the shavian community yesterday to allow users to practice writing with the Shavian alphabet. This means that content is written in English with a non-Latin alphabet.

Even though I haven't told anyone about the community yet, there has been some traffic: I think my posts so far are being served in a feed somewhere. This is not desirable: a general user would not want to see post titles with unrecognisable characters in their feed.

Is there a way to hide a community from feeds? I found this post about hiding a community, but I don't know if this is possible on lemmy.world.

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[–] can@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This will be a feature in Lemmy 1.0

Private communities: Only followers can view the content, and need to be approved manually by mods. Other community visibilities are also available (unlisted, local only).

[–] MrKaplan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hello,

we can mark your community as locally hidden, which will prevent non-subscribed users from seeing it. This is however only a local thing and will not affect users on other instances. It will therefore also prevent discovery, as it's not only removing posts from a feed, but also removing the entire community from being seen anywhere unless accessed directly.

[–] 2910000@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Thank you for the explanation. With those conditions, I think I'll leave it as is for now. I noticed when looking at my feed after posting this that a few posts in other languages (presumably labelled "uncategorized") are appearing in my feed, so at least posts from my community won't be a complete exception.
As the other commenter pointed out, I can also take a look at the "unlisted" option when Lemmy hits 1.0.

Thanks again!