I keep thinking that subscribing to communities in mastodon would ideally have the top level posts "reposted" by the community account and the comments on the posts in the replies to the posts. Does it work that way now or no?

I feel like an additional major danger here is putting them in conditions where disease can spread rapidly, then pointing to them being hurt by an outbreak and using the very situation they put them in as evidence that "immigrants are diseased" or the like, to fuel further persecution of immigrants both inside and out of the camp.