> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.curation.space/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Visibility

> Each curation is Private, Unlisted, or Public, and that choice decides who can open it, where it appears, and who can have its links delivered.

Each curation is **Private**, **Unlisted**, or **Public**, and that choice decides who can open it, where it appears, and who can have its links delivered.

## What does each setting mean?

A new curation is Public unless you choose otherwise when you make it. Your Stash starts Private.

| | Private | Unlisted | Public |
| - | - | - | - |
| Who can open it | Only you | Anyone with its address | Anyone |
| On your profile, in Explore, in your Linkstream | No | No | Yes |
| Reaches followers through Following | No | No | Yes, for links added while it's public |
| Others can subscribe | No | Yes, with its address | Yes |
| Shown on a Public Delivery Channel | Counted, not shown or copied | Counted, not shown or copied | Shown and copied |

Change a curation's visibility from the **Public**, **Unlisted**, or **Private** choice under its title. A private or unlisted curation shows a **Private** or **Unlisted** badge under its title.

## Can someone subscribe to my unlisted curation?

Yes, if they have its address. Anyone who can open it can choose **Subscribe**.

## What changes if I make a public curation unlisted?

It leaves your profile, Explore, and your Linkstream, and its new links stop reaching your followers. People already subscribed to it keep receiving it.

## Does making it private stop subscriptions?

Other people's, yes. Their subscriptions stay in place but deliver nothing while it's private, and their channel shows "Curation unavailable". Your own subscriptions to it keep working. Everything in the unlisted case applies too.

## Will followers get its links if I make it public again?

Only links added from then on. A link reaches Following only if the curation was public when it was added and still is. The curation is back on your profile and in Explore, and its links return to your Linkstream.

## What does a Public Delivery Channel show?

Its name, cadence, and sources from public curations, on your profile's **Channels** tab. Delivery channels are private unless you make them public, and a public one's endpoint is never shown. Sources from unlisted and private curations are counted, "N private sources aren't shown", and never copied. See [Copy a curator's channel](https://docs.curation.space/things-you-can-do/copy-a-channel.md#how-do-i-make-my-own-channel-public).

## What can others see of me?

Once you have a username: your profile, with your portrait, name, bio, public curations, Linkstream, and Public Delivery Channels. Curators you follow see your name in their Activity. Curators whose curations you subscribe to see only a count, never your name.

Your Library, Activity, delivery history, endpoints, and private curations are only for you.


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