A small tool to view real-world ActivityPub objects as JSON! Enter a URL
or username from Mastodon or a similar service below, and we'll send a
request with
the right
Accept
header
to the server to view the underlying object.
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"toot": "http://joinmastodon.org/ns#",
"votersCount": "toot:votersCount",
"Hashtag": "as:Hashtag"
}
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"content": "<p>When I was young and computer resources were limited I thought: "Why the hell am I messing with shell scripts when I could just do it more easily with Python?"</p><p>30 years later I'm older and computer resources seems to be unlimited and I think: "Why the hell am I wasting resources using Python when shell scripting is already there and does the job?"</p><p><a href=\"https://hostux.social/tags/UNIX\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>UNIX</span></a> <a href=\"https://hostux.social/tags/shell\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>shell</span></a> <a href=\"https://hostux.social/tags/ShellScripting\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>ShellScripting</span></a> <a href=\"https://hostux.social/tags/Python\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Python</span></a></p>",
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},
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