Hello, I would like to test if communities behave differently from regular groups on the Mastodon side, since they have a moderator and regular groups don’t. I will post a reply and ask a moderator to remove it to see if something happens on the Mastodon view of this thread.

Picture is a picrew by Gyadam/그야담 , for funsies.

    • Berin@discuss.tchncs.deOP
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      24 days ago

      Thank you! Unfortunately, somehow this post didn’t show up on the community’s group account at all for some reason (even though older threads from about a week ago do show up normally), so I couldn’t make any observations😔 I tried it again on [email protected], and so far the thread shows up alright, so I guess I’ll continue my test over there

      Edit: Now that I’m looking more closely, actually, this community doesn’t seem to be a group at all! It should have a “Group” tag in its profile. 🤔 [email protected] seems to be a proper group however, maybe that’s why it behaves differently?

        • Berin@discuss.tchncs.deOP
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          24 days ago

          … :0 Huh, that’s interesting. Functionally, I don’t think there’s a way to differentiate between groups/communities and users on Mastodon. You should be able to search up the community by using its full URL (in this case https://sh.itjust.works/c/test), then it should point you to the corresponding group account. But it doesn’t show up when I try. That’s why I searched for the username directly. It also very weird that the user seems to be boosting threads and comments as a group would.

          It’s not a problem with the instance either, I can search and find other communities on this instance that way just fine. Looks like a bug to me? And not a Mastodon-exclusive one, on my side-account on goblin.band I get the same behaviour.