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.

  • CameronDev
    4·
    5 hours ago

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

    • AtegonMA
      2·
      1 hour 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