ActivityPub Viewer

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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{ "@context": [ "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" } ], "id": "https://infosec.exchange/users/briankrebs/statuses/112156177583529919", "type": "Note", "summary": null, "inReplyTo": null, "published": "2024-03-25T11:50:55Z", "url": "https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/112156177583529919", "attributedTo": "https://infosec.exchange/users/briankrebs", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://infosec.exchange/users/briankrebs/followers" ], "sensitive": false, "atomUri": "https://infosec.exchange/users/briankrebs/statuses/112156177583529919", "inReplyToAtomUri": null, "conversation": "tag:infosec.exchange,2024-03-25:objectId=144955607:objectType=Conversation", "content": "<p>I didn&#39;t realize this until very recently, but if you post here and then make edits to that post, what you changed isn&#39;t really gone but stored in the post&#39;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 &quot;duh,&quot; but it was news to me and I suspect many people likewise didn&#39;t read the manual.</p><p>And then there&#39;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 &quot;delete and re-draft&quot; option on a post.</p>", "contentMap": { "en": "<p>I didn&#39;t realize this until very recently, but if you post here and then make edits to that post, what you changed isn&#39;t really gone but stored in the post&#39;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 &quot;duh,&quot; but it was news to me and I suspect many people likewise didn&#39;t read the manual.</p><p>And then there&#39;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 &quot;delete and re-draft&quot; option on a post.</p>" }, "attachment": [], "tag": [], "replies": { "id": "https://infosec.exchange/users/briankrebs/statuses/112156177583529919/replies", "type": "Collection", "first": { "type": "CollectionPage", "next": "https://infosec.exchange/users/briankrebs/statuses/112156177583529919/replies?only_other_accounts=true&page=true", "partOf": "https://infosec.exchange/users/briankrebs/statuses/112156177583529919/replies", "items": [] } }, "likes": { "id": "https://infosec.exchange/users/briankrebs/statuses/112156177583529919/likes", "type": "Collection", "totalItems": 186 }, "shares": { "id": "https://infosec.exchange/users/briankrebs/statuses/112156177583529919/shares", "type": "Collection", "totalItems": 88 } }