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[Announcement] A list of hidden communities on programming.dev is now public (legal.programming.dev)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by UlrikHD@programming.dev to c/meta@programming.dev
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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.

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[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Dunno if it's possible, but you may want to just wildcard hide all of lemmynsfw.com, occasionally one of its communities will slip through. Just saw a c/bdsm post.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You can block instances in settings.

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] Ategon@programming.dev 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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