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Is there a way to hide a community I moderate from showing up on all or local? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I run a few niche communities that would benefit from not being visible when people browse local or all. Is this possible?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Would it benefit the communities, or the public? Why should they be hidden?

As someone who is in their own niche communities (not on Lemmy) I suggest communities could have 3 modes: Standard, NSFW, and NSFL. If a community is marked NSFW or nsfl, it can never go back to Standard. If a community is marked NSFL, it can never be NSFW or Standard, or maybe if it does, all content from it is deleted.

Users could then set their preferences to standard, NSFW, or NSFL. If they choose NSFL, they see everything.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The community. Right now, sometimes people post stuff and it gets down voted into oblivion before anyone who actually subscribes can see it. And then even when you go directly to the community, people don't see that post because it's down voted so much.

And I mean.. The posts in question were so not offensive.. Just probably not what the general public wants to read or engage with.

Let me give you a concrete example:

How was your church service today?

That's it. That was one of the posts that was down voted into oblivion.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I don't think it's possible currently, but maybe a feature we can suggest for the future.

As for why your post got downvoted, it seems that Lemmy is majority Atheist, based on the amount of posts I see on "All / Hot". Your community may be targeted by a small group if this is a recurring event.

I don't have a good solution for you in the meantime. I know that communities can be blocked by instances, so you may be able to get in contact with lemmy.ml, beehaw, lem.ee, etc. instance owners and ask them to block your community from their feeds, or something like that.

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