Federated (Tag) is author

[devnull]

Seems like a bug? @angus

See the AP object for this topic: ID normalization

When fetched by NodeBB, led to this topic by a user named “Federated (Tag)” instead of @silverpill

I replied to it but discourse seemed unable to capture the activity.

[angus]

See my response here

Can you hear me Fediverse?

Yeah, if the taxonomy has “First Post Only” enabled (meaning only the first post in each topic in that taxonomy will be federated, then content is intentionally attributed to the taxonomy itself instead of the user. This allows for the use case where you have an “Announcements” category or similar you will federate content as the Group actor (which is normally what people want in that scenario). In the Discourse plugin, the “standard” use case you’re referring to is the publication type “Full To…