# Topics made with ActivityPub don't have a category?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/topics-made-with-activitypub-dont-have-a-category/360221>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** activitypub\
**Created:** [April 3, 2025, 12:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topics-made-with-activitypub-dont-have-a-category/360221 "2025-04-03T12:42:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![pmusaraj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pmusaraj/32/119489_2.png) [@pmusaraj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pmusaraj)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2025, 2:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topics-made-with-activitypub-dont-have-a-category/360221/3 "2025-04-03T14:27:10Z")

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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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