Show hidden community content in user profile

[Demigodrick]

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Is your proposal related to a problem?

When using the API to hide communities from /all, it also has the effect of hiding the posts from a user's profile.

This happens even if you're subscribed to a community, you still can't see that user's posts on their profile from that community, which makes following a particular person hard.

Similarly, it also makes discoverability of hidden communities tricky too.

Describe the solution you'd like.

It would be ideal if there was a way to just hide the communities from /all, but still allow the rest of the features for the profile and the community. I don't want certain NSFW to spam the all /feed, but at the same time I don't want to completely kill those communities for my users who want to see them, or interactions between users because the community is hidden from /all, but there doesn't appear to be a middle ground option here. Just a way to hide from /all without affecting any other content or functionality would be great.

Describe alternatives you've considered.

Alternative way of hiding communities from the /all feed that doesn't also hide the communities from users if searched for.

Additional context

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[dessalines]

We shouldn't be hiding posts from hidden communities for the subscribed view: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/crates/db_views/src/post/post_view.rs#L471

When using the API to hide communities from /all, it also has the effect of hiding the posts from a user's profile.

As far as whether to show them on either the users profile, or from search, needs some discussion. Hidden is supposed to mean hidden from discoverability, so I'd like to keep the exceptions to that rule to a minimum.

[Demigodrick]

We shouldn't be hiding posts from hidden communities for the subscribed view

Not from subscribed view, but from the poster's profile even if the user is subscribed to the community the poster is posting in.

For example, User A posts in Community A. I have hidden community A from /all which then prevents any unsubscribed users from seeing the content of Community A. User B subscribes to that community, and can now see the content. However when User B goes to the profile of User A, all the content from Community A is still missing, even though User B is subscribed and can see that content in the community.

I'd be happy if it wasn't specifically "hide", I'm looking for a solution that doesn't stop discoverability but allows me as an admin to stop some content from appearing on /all. What you can see with some NSFW communities is that a user will suddenly post 5 or 6 times to a community, or a couple of communities, and suddenly the /all feed is basically just NSFW content. While this doesn't affect users who have it turned off, it can be a bit overwhelming for those who have it enabled for things like spoilers.

Ideally, I'd like these to just not show on /all, but still be searchable if the user wants to look for it.

Hope that makes sense :)