# Forum federation thread on the.socialmusic.network **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-federation-thread-on-the-socialmusic-network/370991 **Category:** General **Tags:** activitypub **Created:** [June 20, 2025, 8:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-federation-thread-on-the-socialmusic-network/370991 "2025-06-20T08:13:22Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 29
### Author: ![Moin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/moin/32/554653_2.png) [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin) #### Post date: [July 1, 2025, 7:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-federation-thread-on-the-socialmusic-network/370991/29 "2025-07-01T07:54:02Z")
There is no ActivityPub category on Meta; there is a tag for that. And it’s the tag that follows the category on your forum. So topics here are created uncategorized but with the #activitypub tag. Angus explained that before in April: > [@Topics made with ActivityPub don't have a category?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topics-made-with-activitypub-dont-have-a-category/360221/6): > > Thanks for the suggestions @NateDhaliwal. To clarify that topic you linked to was originally created on socialhub.activitypub.rocks. You can see where it was originally posted in the ActivityPub info. Perhaps if I go over how this works a little more you might see why that wouldn’t make sense. Discourse supports two type of ActivityPub actors who can publish and receive posts: categories and tags. Currently on meta there are two categories and four tags whi… A community member moved the post to the support category. I guess I would have chosen the same category because, to me > [@strypey](#): > > trying to get their heads around how to use the AP federation features sounds like they need help (in contrast to, e.g., reporting a #Contribute > Bug or requesting a #Contribute > Feature). Though the #General category, where it is now, of course, also works, as general works for everything. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-federation-thread-on-the-socialmusic-network/370991)._