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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"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
{
"ostatus": "http://ostatus.org#",
"atomUri": "ostatus:atomUri",
"inReplyToAtomUri": "ostatus:inReplyToAtomUri",
"conversation": "ostatus:conversation",
"sensitive": "as:sensitive",
"toot": "http://joinmastodon.org/ns#",
"votersCount": "toot:votersCount",
"litepub": "http://litepub.social/ns#",
"directMessage": "litepub:directMessage"
}
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"published": "2024-03-25T11:50:55Z",
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],
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],
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"content": "<p>I didn't realize this until very recently, but if you post here and then make edits to that post, what you changed isn't really gone but stored in the post's history, a kind of wiki which is accessible to others. Feeling dumb, I asked a couple of users if they knew this and they were like "duh," but it was news to me and I suspect many people likewise didn't read the manual.</p><p>And then there's the question of how/whether your update to the post is going to be reflected on all of the other servers that federate with this one. </p><p>While I understand and admire the radical transparency of this setup, it can be problematic to try and redact something from a post. This happened to me recently and the best advice was delete and repost, as opposed to the built-in "delete and re-draft" option on a post.</p>",
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"en": "<p>I didn't realize this until very recently, but if you post here and then make edits to that post, what you changed isn't really gone but stored in the post's history, a kind of wiki which is accessible to others. Feeling dumb, I asked a couple of users if they knew this and they were like "duh," but it was news to me and I suspect many people likewise didn't read the manual.</p><p>And then there's the question of how/whether your update to the post is going to be reflected on all of the other servers that federate with this one. </p><p>While I understand and admire the radical transparency of this setup, it can be problematic to try and redact something from a post. This happened to me recently and the best advice was delete and repost, as opposed to the built-in "delete and re-draft" option on a post.</p>"
},
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"tag": [],
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