I don’t know what’s going on, or what ActivityPub even is, but I think that is what causes this issue: This topic does not have a category, only a tag. Surely this is not intended?

Relevant screenshots: [This image shows a social media discussion on Discord about how content warnings are not reflected in topic titles. (Captioned by AI)] <a class="lightbox" href="https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/9/7/9/979381b93a3fb490d1480c391372ea52c1910cc1.jpeg" data-download-href="/uploads/short-url/lCU82MdDnaBZuTDJGfU7mOOwKFX.jpeg?dl=1" title="The image shows a list of notifications from a chat app on a mobile device, featuring icons, text, and colors for different issues, including a "Test admin guide to tags in admin guide," "Content warnings," and "How to include the 'Request' Button." (Captioned by AI)">[The image shows a list of notifications from a chat app on a mobile device, featuring icons, text, and colors for different issues, inclu…

Ah, interesting. The activitypub tag is configured to receive topics from another community vi the ActivityPub protocol (it’s a two-way sync, topics and replies on meta also go to the other community). However, it looks like the plugin doesn’t pick a default category for the topics it creates. I am…

[image] NateDhaliwal: This topic does not have a category, only a tag. Surely this is not intended? This is intended. [image] pmusaraj: “default category to pick when none is specified” I don’t think there’s such a thing as a default category in Discourse currently (strictly speaking)…

@angus This also happened here . Is there a way to fix this, or is it not possible to specify the category when making the post via ActivityPub (to my understanding, this is Discourse (@Discourse@mastodon.social) - Mastodon ), I think? Perhaps a setting that would move topics created by ActivityPub i…

Thanks for the suggestions @NateDhaliwal . [image] NateDhaliwal: Is there a way to fix this, or is it not possible to specify the category when making the post via ActivityPub (to my understanding, this is Discourse (@Discourse@mastodon.social) - Mastodon ), I think? To clarify that topic you …

Topics made with ActivityPub don't have a category?

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NateDhaliwal (Nate Dhaliwal) May 1, 2025, 7:54am 7

I see. Thanks for the clarification!

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