A small tool to view real-world ActivityPub objects as JSON! Enter a URL
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Accept
header
to the server to view the underlying object.
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"toot": "http://joinmastodon.org/ns#",
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"Hashtag": "as:Hashtag"
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"content": "<p>Having packages/modules be defined as single files is a fundamental programming language design error. <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/Python\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Python</span></a>, but also <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/Erlang\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Erlang</span></a>, <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/Scheme\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Scheme</span></a>, the misguided package-inferred-system extension for <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/CommonLisp\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>CommonLisp</span></a>… Because no one wants a 10k lines file mixing dozens of concepts, you end up with a multitude of small packages for no good reason. </p><p>At least in Erlang you can just use whatever was loaded without manually importing every single module you need everywhere, but Python is as usual the worst.</p>",
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