diff --git a/src/components/ListCard.tsx b/src/components/ListCard.tsx
index 0c922b63af..829f36d471 100644
--- a/src/components/ListCard.tsx
+++ b/src/components/ListCard.tsx
@@ -117,7 +117,10 @@ export function TitleAndByline({
     <View style={[a.flex_1]}>
       <Hider.Outer
         modui={modUi}
-        override={creator && currentAccount?.did === creator.did}>
+        isContentVisibleInitialState={
+          creator && currentAccount?.did === creator.did
+        }
+        allowOverride={creator && currentAccount?.did === creator.did}>
         <Hider.Mask>
           <Text
             style={[a.text_md, a.font_bold, a.leading_snug, a.italic]}
diff --git a/src/components/moderation/Hider.tsx b/src/components/moderation/Hider.tsx
index 8943a1f794..8430afa66d 100644
--- a/src/components/moderation/Hider.tsx
+++ b/src/components/moderation/Hider.tsx
@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ type Context = {
   info: ModerationCauseDescription
   showInfoDialog: () => void
   meta: {
-    isNoPwi?: boolean
-    noOverride?: boolean
+    isNoPwi: boolean
+    allowOverride: boolean
   }
 }
 
@@ -27,16 +27,18 @@ export const useHider = () => React.useContext(Context)
 
 export function Outer({
   modui,
-  override,
+  isContentVisibleInitialState,
+  allowOverride,
   children,
 }: React.PropsWithChildren<{
-  override?: boolean
+  isContentVisibleInitialState?: boolean
+  allowOverride?: boolean
   modui: ModerationUI | undefined
 }>) {
   const control = useModerationDetailsDialogControl()
   const blur = modui?.blurs[0]
   const [isContentVisible, setIsContentVisible] = React.useState(
-    override || !blur,
+    isContentVisibleInitialState || !blur,
   )
   const info = useModerationCauseDescription(blur)
 
@@ -48,7 +50,7 @@ export function Outer({
           cause.labelDef.identifier === '!no-unauthenticated',
       ),
     ),
-    noOverride: modui?.noOverride,
+    allowOverride: allowOverride || !modui?.noOverride,
   }
 
   const showInfoDialog = () => {
@@ -56,7 +58,7 @@ export function Outer({
   }
 
   const onSetContentVisible = (show: boolean) => {
-    if (meta.noOverride) return
+    if (meta.allowOverride) return
     setIsContentVisible(show)
   }
 
diff --git a/src/view/screens/ProfileList.tsx b/src/view/screens/ProfileList.tsx
index 727ab4b6dd..304bb839e2 100644
--- a/src/view/screens/ProfileList.tsx
+++ b/src/view/screens/ProfileList.tsx
@@ -142,6 +142,7 @@ function ProfileListScreenLoaded({
   const queryClient = useQueryClient()
   const {openComposer} = useComposerControls()
   const setMinimalShellMode = useSetMinimalShellMode()
+  const {currentAccount} = useSession()
   const {rkey} = route.params
   const feedSectionRef = React.useRef<SectionRef>(null)
   const aboutSectionRef = React.useRef<SectionRef>(null)
@@ -149,6 +150,7 @@ function ProfileListScreenLoaded({
   const isCurateList = list.purpose === 'app.bsky.graph.defs#curatelist'
   const isScreenFocused = useIsFocused()
   const isHidden = list.labels?.findIndex(l => l.val === '!hide') !== -1
+  const isOwner = currentAccount?.did === list.creator.did
 
   const moderation = React.useMemo(() => {
     return moderateUserList(list, moderationOpts)
@@ -191,7 +193,7 @@ function ProfileListScreenLoaded({
 
   if (isCurateList) {
     return (
-      <Hider.Outer modui={moderation.ui('contentView')}>
+      <Hider.Outer modui={moderation.ui('contentView')} allowOverride={isOwner}>
         <Hider.Mask>
           <ListHiddenScreen list={list} preferences={preferences} />
         </Hider.Mask>
@@ -241,7 +243,7 @@ function ProfileListScreenLoaded({
     )
   }
   return (
-    <Hider.Outer modui={moderation.ui('contentView')}>
+    <Hider.Outer modui={moderation.ui('contentView')} allowOverride={isOwner}>
       <Hider.Mask>
         <ListHiddenScreen list={list} preferences={preferences} />
       </Hider.Mask>