Topics made with ActivityPub don't have a category?

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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?

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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 not sure if this is strictly a plugin issue or an issue with meta.

@tobiaseigen is there a site setting for “default category to pick when none is specified”? I see we have a default composer category but that’s not quite the same thing.

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This is intended.

I don’t think there’s such a thing as a default category in Discourse currently (strictly speaking). As you say, a default category in the composer is a different thing.

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