Even if you set a trust level group to be visible by everyone, they are still not shown on the global group list.
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That appears to be by design. I don’t think Trust Level lists are meant to be available to the general user base:
But the behavior of the visibility setting re. automatic groups is confusing, and has been brought up: Respect the visibility settings of all automatic groups - Feature
(So this might be a UX item rather than a Bug, but I’ll see if anyone else has thoughts.)
If you have a case where it makes sense to publicly list, for instance, a few TL4 users, you might find this theme component useful: Add groups to the /about page - Theme component
EDIT: I’ve just been informed that this component functionality is now in core, under Admin → Community → About your site:
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Automatic groups are intentionally hidden from the group index (/g) — but the visibility settings will let normal users visit them directly (community.example.com/g/trust_level_0).
It’s been like this for a long time… there’s an old comment in the code about why
# hide automatic groups from all non stuff to de-clutter page
but maybe it’s unnecessary now? might be clearer to just have them follow their appearance settings (and let them remain hidden by default)
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I have no desire to expose TL group lists, but having the visibility settings do what they say might head off similar questions in the future.
(There’s a good detailed discussion over at the feature request for anyone who wants to support this.)