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.
… :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.
Maybe it depends which federated first initially (user vs community)