diff --git a/src/Model/Contact.php b/src/Model/Contact.php
index 20dfc4d35..bb0ba32c3 100644
--- a/src/Model/Contact.php
+++ b/src/Model/Contact.php
@@ -1821,8 +1821,12 @@ class Contact extends BaseObject
 		  This will reliably kill your communication with old Friendica contacts.
 		 */
 
+		// These fields aren't updated by this routine:
+		// 'location', 'about', 'keywords', 'gender', 'xmpp', 'unsearchable', 'sensitive'];
+
 		$fields = ['avatar', 'uid', 'name', 'nick', 'url', 'addr', 'batch', 'notify',
-			'poll', 'request', 'confirm', 'poco', 'network', 'alias', 'baseurl'];
+			'poll', 'request', 'confirm', 'poco', 'network', 'alias', 'baseurl',
+			'forum', 'prv', 'contact-type'];
 		$contact = DBA::selectFirst('contact', $fields, ['id' => $id]);
 		if (!DBA::isResult($contact)) {
 			return false;
@@ -1847,13 +1851,26 @@ class Contact extends BaseObject
 			return false;
 		}
 
+		if (isset($ret['account-type'])) {
+			$ret['forum'] = false;
+			$ret['prv'] = false;
+			$ret['contact-type'] = $ret['account-type'];
+			if ($ret['contact-type'] == User::ACCOUNT_TYPE_COMMUNITY) {
+				$apcontact = APContact::getByURL($ret['url'], false);
+				if (isset($apcontact['manually-approve'])) {
+					$ret['forum'] = (bool)!$apcontact['manually-approve'];
+					$ret['prv'] = (bool)!$ret['forum'];
+				}
+			}
+		}
+
 		$update = false;
 
 		// make sure to not overwrite existing values with blank entries
 		foreach ($ret as $key => $val) {
 			if (!array_key_exists($key, $contact)) {
 				unset($ret[$key]);
-			} elseif (($contact[$key] != '') && ($val == '')) {
+			} elseif (($contact[$key] != '') && ($val == '') && !is_bool($ret[$key])) {
 				$ret[$key] = $contact[$key];
 			} elseif ($ret[$key] != $contact[$key]) {
 				$update = true;
@@ -1886,6 +1903,17 @@ class Contact extends BaseObject
 		return true;
 	}
 
+	public static function updateFromProbeByURL($url, $force = false)
+	{
+		$id = self::getIdForURL($url);
+
+		if (empty($id)) {
+			return;
+		}
+
+		self::updateFromProbe($id, '', $force);
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * Detects if a given contact array belongs to a legacy DFRN connection
 	 *
diff --git a/src/Model/GContact.php b/src/Model/GContact.php
index 7da5f18e9..0fae0da9d 100644
--- a/src/Model/GContact.php
+++ b/src/Model/GContact.php
@@ -913,30 +913,27 @@ class GContact
 			$old_gcontact = [];
 		}
 
-		$gcontact = $contact;
+		$gcontact = [];
+
+		// These fields are identical in both contact and gcontact
+		$fields = ['name', 'nick', 'url', 'nurl', 'location', 'about', 'keywords', 'gender',
+			'contact-type', 'network', 'addr', 'notify', 'alias', 'created', 'updated'];
+
+		foreach ($fields as $field) {
+			$gcontact[$field] = $contact[$field];
+		}
 
 		// These fields are having different names but the same content
-		$gcontact['server_url'] = $gcontact['baseurl'];
-		unset($gcontact['baseurl']);
-		$gcontact['nsfw'] = $gcontact['sensitive'];
-		unset($gcontact['sensitive']);
-		$gcontact['hide'] = $gcontact['unsearchable'];
-		unset($gcontact['unsearchable']);
-		$gcontact['archived'] = $gcontact['archive'];
-		unset($gcontact['archive']);
-		$gcontact['archive_date'] = $gcontact['term-date'];
-		unset($gcontact['term-date']);
-		$gcontact['birthday'] = $gcontact['bd'];
-		unset($gcontact['bd']);
-		$gcontact['photo'] = $gcontact['avatar'];
-		unset($gcontact['avatar']);
-		$gcontact['last_contact'] = $gcontact['success_update'];
-		unset($gcontact['success_update']);
-		$gcontact['last_failure'] = $gcontact['failure_update'];
-		unset($gcontact['failure_update']);
-		$gcontact['community'] = ($gcontact['forum'] || $gcontact['prv']);
-		unset($gcontact['forum']);
-		unset($gcontact['prv']);
+		$gcontact['server_url'] = $contact['baseurl'];
+		$gcontact['nsfw'] = $contact['sensitive'];
+		$gcontact['hide'] = $contact['unsearchable'];
+		$gcontact['archived'] = $contact['archive'];
+		$gcontact['archive_date'] = $contact['term-date'];
+		$gcontact['birthday'] = $contact['bd'];
+		$gcontact['photo'] = $contact['avatar'];
+		$gcontact['last_contact'] = $contact['success_update'];
+		$gcontact['last_failure'] = $contact['failure_update'];
+		$gcontact['community'] = ($contact['forum'] || $contact['prv']);
 
 		foreach (['last_contact', 'last_failure', 'updated'] as $field) {
 			if (!empty($old_gcontact[$field]) && ($old_gcontact[$field] >= $gcontact[$field])) {
diff --git a/src/Network/Probe.php b/src/Network/Probe.php
index 5c20cc071..fae6f8c93 100644
--- a/src/Network/Probe.php
+++ b/src/Network/Probe.php
@@ -45,8 +45,8 @@ class Probe
 	 */
 	private static function rearrangeData($data)
 	{
-		$fields = ["name", "nick", "guid", "url", "addr", "alias",
-				"photo", "community", "keywords", "location", "about",
+		$fields = ["name", "nick", "guid", "url", "addr", "alias", "photo",
+				"account-type", "community", "keywords", "location", "about",
 				"batch", "notify", "poll", "request", "confirm", "poco",
 				"priority", "network", "pubkey", "baseurl"];
 
@@ -349,6 +349,8 @@ class Probe
 
 			if (!empty($ap_profile) && empty($network) && (defaults($data, 'network', '') != Protocol::DFRN)) {
 				$data = $ap_profile;
+			} elseif (!empty($ap_profile)) {
+				$data = array_merge($ap_profile, $data);
 			}
 		} else {
 			Logger::notice('Time out detected. AP will not be probed.', ['uri' => $uri]);
diff --git a/src/Protocol/ActivityPub.php b/src/Protocol/ActivityPub.php
index 8caf7ac64..42b5de9e2 100644
--- a/src/Protocol/ActivityPub.php
+++ b/src/Protocol/ActivityPub.php
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ use Friendica\Util\JsonLD;
 use Friendica\Util\Network;
 use Friendica\Core\Protocol;
 use Friendica\Model\APContact;
+use Friendica\Model\User;
 use Friendica\Util\HTTPSignature;
 
 /**
@@ -88,6 +89,31 @@ class ActivityPub
 		return $content;
 	}
 
+	private static function getAccountType($apcontact)
+	{
+		$accounttype = -1;
+
+		switch($apcontact['type']) {
+			case 'Person':
+				$accounttype = User::ACCOUNT_TYPE_PERSON;
+				break;
+			case 'Organization':
+				$accounttype = User::ACCOUNT_TYPE_ORGANISATION;
+				break;
+			case 'Service':
+				$accounttype = User::ACCOUNT_TYPE_NEWS;
+				break;
+			case 'Group':
+				$accounttype = User::ACCOUNT_TYPE_COMMUNITY;
+				break;
+			case 'Application':
+				$accounttype = User::ACCOUNT_TYPE_RELAY;
+				break;
+		}
+
+		return $accounttype;
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * Fetches a profile from the given url into an array that is compatible to Probe::uri
 	 *
@@ -112,7 +138,8 @@ class ActivityPub
 		$profile['addr'] = $apcontact['addr'];
 		$profile['alias'] = $apcontact['alias'];
 		$profile['photo'] = $apcontact['photo'];
-		// $profile['community']
+		$profile['account-type'] = self::getAccountType($apcontact);
+		$profile['community'] = ($profile['account-type'] == User::ACCOUNT_TYPE_COMMUNITY);
 		// $profile['keywords']
 		// $profile['location']
 		$profile['about'] = $apcontact['about'];