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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NateDhaliwal:

This topic does not have a category, only a tag. Surely this is not intended?

This is intended.

pmusaraj:

“default category to pick when none is specified”

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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@angus This also happened here. Is there a way to fix this, or is it not possible to specify the category when making the post via ActivityPub (to my understanding, this is https://mastodon.social/@Discourse), I think?Perhaps a setting that would move topics created by ActivityPub into a specified category?



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