Why can I see some communities while logged out, but not while logged in? (lemmyf.uk)

submitted 6 months ago by wrekone@lemmyf.uk to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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This seems to be random. These are communities on the instance I'm logged into. AFAICT I'm not being blocked in these communities. I'm not even sure if mods *can *block someone from seeing a community. I'm guessing this has been asked before, but I couldn't find a thread on it.

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[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 16 points 6 months ago

Have you blocked them? You won't see them while you're logged in if you block them.

[-] wrekone@lemmyf.uk 8 points 6 months ago

Doesn't look like it. It's not in my list of blocks. I can navigate to the community, but none of the posts are shown. It's just an empty feed.

[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 18 points 6 months ago

Do you have your languages set to both "Undetermined" and "English" in your settings? I had a problem seeing some posts with only one language selected.

[-] ahto@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 6 months ago

Do you have "Show Read Posts" turned on in the settings?

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago

Weird. Are you using a client?

Does that happen on the actual site?

Oh it's not NSFW and you're blocking NSFW stuff is it?

[-] minibyte@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

I wonder if it’s some kind of weird shadow ban.

[-] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 6 months ago

Shadow ban is different though. You can still post and interact but no one else sees you.

[-] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

lemmy is fully open source (and other activitypub implementations), are shadow bans even a thing?

[-] ytsedude@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Are you using Voyager? I've noticed a similar thing and didn't know if it was a Lemmy issue or Voyager issue.

[-] Asudox@lemmy.world -2 points 6 months ago

Locking as this post violates rule 5.

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