Help needed to control flow and look of activitypub

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SIXGUNS seeks help to control the flow and appearance of ActivityPub integration on their Discourse forum. They want to disable tags from the forum navigation and improve the display of emojis in usernames and embedded content like YouTube videos. SIXGUNS mentions that following even a few users flooded their forum and that they cannot edit staged users’ posts to correct appearance issues. chapoi suggests enabling tags to hide the tag dropdown or using custom CSS to hide it if tags are still needed but not in the navigation. SIXGUNS acknowledges the suggestion and notes the complexity of ActivityPub integration, hinting at the need for a wiki post to catalog issues.

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Love the fediverse integration but it’s heavy for older users, I need to tone it down and make it look better

To test the water I selected just a few people to follow, it flooded my forum, I reduced to one for now

To begin to calm the effect can someone please explain how I can change the default forum navigation to no tags?

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I searched my admin and here and its eluded me, I feel it will help for now.

Secondly, appearance

Users with emoji’s in their name, as highlighted yellow above, unattractive, can I do anything to make these propagate properly?

Appearance issue two

Youtube videos (actually most content) do not one box, and I can not edit these staged users posts to try to correct, can I do anything as admin to make these post more aesthetically pleasing?

My fediverse info

actors
https://sixguns.com/ap/about
follows
https://sixguns.com/ap/local/actor/7942/follows

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Example, top as posted on Discourse

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bottom as seen on Mastodon, again, I can not edit a staged users post to try to improve the appearance.

as a new user account I can not post two separate images here either which is why both are merged as one

Are there admin permission settings I am missing to correct how these propagate?

actual links

https://sixguns.com/t/the-world-s-largest-hedge-fund-just-sold-all-it-s/1735

https://loaded.sixguns.com/@Dan_Ramos@noauthority.social/115036287039653144

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I can only answer this question: but you should find a setting to enable tags, which will make the tag dropdown disappear.

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If you still want to use tags, but just not in the navigation, you can add some custom css to hide the dropdown:

.select-kit.combo-box.tag-drop { display: none }; //scope to mobile
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Thanks for your effort and kindness.

After looking though other activitypub threads it seems it’s a mess, I’d suggest a wiki post to catalogue issues but this isn’t that and I don’t expect any other answers to those issues.