Can I hide my community from feeds?

Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨2910000@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨support@lemmy.world⁩

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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
This will be a feature in Lemmy 1.0

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MrKaplan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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.

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- 2910000@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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!
  
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