[Announcement] news@lemmy.world is now set as hidden (unless you subscribe)

2 years ago by UlrikHD to c/meta

As per our policy of hiding political communities, pornographic communities and communities hosting bot spam, !news@lemmy.world is now set to hidden as its content is mainly USA centric political news.

Those of you who want to continue to see posts from !news@lemmy.world are encouraged to subscribe to the community, which will make the it visible for your account.

The mods over !news@lemmy.world have already been notified of this move and understand our decision, please do not bother them by pinging them here.

A previous announcement post of other hidden communities can be seen here

Die4Ever 16 points 2 years ago

the title of this post sounds more serious than it actually is, maybe the title should be modified?

maybe just add "unless you subscribe"?

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UlrikHD 2 points 2 years ago

It's just the name of API call

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Die4Ever 12 points 2 years ago

Right but it's not a well-known feature of Lemmy, so people won't know that

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UlrikHD 9 points 2 years ago

I've updated the title. Ideally people will read the content of announcements though.

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Zorque 9 points 2 years ago

Ideally the world wouldn't be sliding down a fascist waterslide a mach 3. Ideally.

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givesomefucks 1 point 2 years ago

The whole post seems unnecessary when this instance has 6 users a day.

Im honestly not sure why world federated with every instance they could find, or why these tiny instances don't just unfederate from world if they have so many issues with it

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fuzzzerd 11 points 2 years ago

Is there a single list of all hidden communities on the instance? I generally browse All and I now question what I may have been missing by not explicitly subscribing.

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UlrikHD 13 points 2 years ago

There are 282 communities marked as hidden in our database, I'll have a talk with the team about publishing a complete list.

The current spread looks something like this:

lemmit.online: 89
lemmynsfw.com: 64
zerobytes.monster: 36
lemmy.world: 12
ani.social: 12
lemy.nl: 9
hexbear.net: 8
lemmygrad.ml: 7
lemmy.ml: 6
fanaticus.social: 4
lemmyf.uk: 4
lemmy.smeargle.fans: 3
selfhosted.forum: 3
programming.dev: 3
beehaw.org: 2
feddit.uk: 2
lemmy.zip: 2
academy.garden: 2
radiation.party: 1
derp.foo: 1
lemmy.dbzer0.com: 1
catata.fish: 1
lemmy.capebreton.social: 1
sh.itjust.works: 1
ttrpg.network: 1
metacritics.zone: 1
lemmy.ca: 1
communick.news: 1
gearhead.town: 1
midwest.social: 1

For the eagle eyed people out there, the map is 2 communities short. The basic script I wrote couldn't find them.

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Die4Ever 1 point 2 years ago

For the eagle eyed people out there, the map is 2 communities short. The basic script I wrote couldn’t find them.

is it possible those communities have been deleted?

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UlrikHD 1 point 2 years ago

I could see one if the ids in the table, but querying the community id via the API doesn't work. Not sure

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SmartmanApps 0 points 2 years ago

the map is 2 communities short

Couldn't find 2 hidden communities? I guess it's working then! 😂

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GBU_28 0 points 2 years ago

Then it doesn't exist, Kenobi

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the_artic_one 9 points 2 years ago

I should move instances, I use All to read news, my subscribed feed is all more positive stuff so I don't doomscroll.

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Die4Ever 2 points 2 years ago

I use All to read news, my subscribed feed is all more positive stuff so I don't doomscroll.

I do the same. I'm not going to move instances over this, but it is an annoyance. Hopefully this hiding is temporary, or the issues I filed on Lemmy's GitHub will improve the situation. Otherwise I guess I'll subscribe and unsubscribe every day to check it? Lol

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the_artic_one 2 points 2 years ago

I doubt it will be temporary, all news is going to be increasingly political for the foreseeable future.

I knew the admins were eventually planning on doing this but I didn't realize it had already started and that it affected apps. Unfortunately it's fundamentally at odds with the way I want to use Lemmy.

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Die4Ever 8 points 2 years ago

just to note:

this hides the community from searches unless you put in the exact community ID

https://programming.dev/search?q=news&type=Communities&listingType=All

this also hides the comments inside posts from the community, unless you are subscribed, even if you browse to the post directly

I think this should maybe be considered a bug? anyone agree? I can file the bug report on Github

EDIT: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5390

and https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5391

and https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/2943

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JackbyDev 7 points 2 years ago

Is there any API to get a list of all hidden communities? I'm tempted to subscribe to all of them because I exclusively browse all and don't want things filtered.

Edit: disregard, I see someone already asked

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UlrikHD 8 points 2 years ago

You could theoretically just loop through every community via "get_communities" and then com_obj["community_view"]["community"]["hidden"] :: boolean *I'm writing this on memory, the json structure may be slightly different

and then just subscribe to every community that pops up.

It will likely be slow though, and it's mostly NSFW + !news@lemmy.world that would pop up on c/all if you did. I also *think* lemmygrad as an instance is hidden, so those communities may pop up if they tend to reach c/all.

I'll discuss with the team about making a public list of hidden communities.

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JackbyDev 5 points 2 years ago

Thanks, I appreciate it. I saw the previous post about the foomoe communities. I'm mostly just curious, I don't see this as some sort of unjust censorship or something like that. I appreciate all the work y'all do for this instance. 💜💜

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starman 5 points 2 years ago

I didn't know I needed this. Thanks!

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anzo 4 points 2 years ago

Thanks! Oft lately my filters for keywords (trump, musk) where not enough.. Let's see if this helps.

Specially since there's a reddification of content/ users.

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JackbyDev 4 points 2 years ago

Does this affect apps/alternate front ends too?

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Die4Ever 4 points 2 years ago

yea, when I open the community in Boost it's empty there too

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Blaze 3 points 2 years ago

Nice initiative

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