Channel content acceptance

2026-08-17 21:53:40

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citc wrote the following post Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:53:39 +0200

Channel content acceptance

If a channel is created within an account, how to configure so that people elsewhere is fediverse may post content to the channel?

2026-08-17 22:14:03

Der Pepe (Hubzilla) ⁂

pepecyb@hub.hubzilla.hu

By “may post content to the channel”, do you mean that other channels can post to your channel? With the standard channel roles, this is only possible for connections. For the “Public” channel role, the default contact role is already configured to allow connections to post. For the “Personal” channel role, this is not the case with the default contact role.
In this case, you need to create your own contact role that allows wall posts and assign this to the desired connections.

If you also want to allow wall posts from ‘external’ channels (which are not connections), you must use the ‘Custom’ channel role and set the permission accordingly (this can go as far as ‘Anybody on the internet’). However, this is definitely not recommended, as it can turn your own channel into a “spam dump”. In principle, the only option that can be recommended is “Only those you explicitly allow” in combination with an appropriate contact role.