only admins can set communities to hidden currently. this is also not exposed via lemmy-ui, it has to be done via API.
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You should be able to use https://tesseract.dubvee.org/ to see votes on your community, and potentially ban people who systematically downvote your content
I say should, because I just tried, and it seems like the feature isn't there anymore. Hello @[email protected] , has the ability to see votes for mods been disabled recently?
As far as I can see Lemmy supports hidden communities
I don't think that's the case. Here at feddit.nl (version 0.19.10, latest) I can set the visibility of a community only to "Public" and "Local Only", too. There seems to be an option for instance admins to hide certain communities from all, though.
This is really quite unfortunate. I would say it's a bit rude to downvote posts from communities you're not a member of. Really shouldn't users be blocking the community from appearing in their feed?
I may take this up with the Lemmy developers. I think only being able to vote on posts in communities you're subscribed to would be an improvement. Wouldn't it?
Yes, the setting to enable votes in a community only for subscribers will be shipped with version 1.0 sometimes this fall probably
Oh, that's perfect. Thanks for letting me know! Will grit my teeth until then! 😬