Sometimes you want to make a post for a community but don’t want to reach the ALL audience (niche or controversial communities). Here is a pseudo workaround to achieve this.
- Make a post
- Immediately delete the post
- Wait 12-24 hours
- Undelete the post
The post will appear in the community at the original creation time and not the undelete time. This avoids the bulk of people who browse all by new (since it will be buried 12 hours in the past). Subscribers will still see the post in their feed
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can you please describe a use case for this? (sorry for posting on a old post)
A community that most people don’t like, but some people do like - like a diet community. You want to make a post for the subscribers but don’t want all of lemmy to downvote it.
ah that makes so much sense. I frequent to llm related comm, and most posts get immediately downvoted because of lemmy’s general opinion on llms. Now that you have described this, I think this should be a feature upstream
subscriber only communities are on the roadmap, one day soonish.
Good idea!
I feel like 12 hours is probably overkill, even 1 hour will be overkill for smaller communities
But IDK I’m not big on scrolling pages and pages of all/new
I regularly make it back 4-6 hours. I never watch the subscription feed, but I block a lot for the all feed
