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", "Hashtag": "as:Hashtag" } ], "id": "https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/Dendrobatus_Azureus/statuses/113984125870324138", "type": "Note", "summary": null, "inReplyTo": "https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/duncan_bayne/statuses/113983531385936319", "published": "2025-02-11T07:42:13Z", "url": "https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@Dendrobatus_Azureus/113984125870324138", "attributedTo": "https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/Dendrobatus_Azureus", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/Dendrobatus_Azureus/followers", "https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/duncan_bayne" ], "sensitive": false, "atomUri": "https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/Dendrobatus_Azureus/statuses/113984125870324138", "inReplyToAtomUri": "https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/duncan_bayne/statuses/113983531385936319", "conversation": "tag:bsd.cafe,2025-02-10:objectId=13123185:objectType=Conversation", "content": "<p><span class=\"h-card\" translate=\"no\"><a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@duncan_bayne\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>duncan_bayne</span></a></span> </p><p>I started to dislike SystemD more and more, as I saw that most distributions were putting hooks for SystemD in case a user would want to switch to it and started with one of the other options initially, on that particular installation.<br />With the hooks in place that process usually goes seamlessly. </p><p>In my proud opinion, if you don&#39;t want to use SystemD, nothing of it should ever be on your system</p><p>Now I can easily achieve that by just building my Linux from scratch, and I&#39;m not talking about the Linux from scratch distribution, I&#39;m talking about the way I did it when Linux was initially pushed into alt.binaries.Unix many decades ago.</p><p>All variants of *BSD have made sure that all the commands which could break, like the ifconfig commands suite we&#39;re simply fixed!</p><p>But this is the the dilemma that you will get, when the kernel is just built for itself and it&#39;s not a coherent part of the base Operating System.</p><p>What you get in practice is that your kernel wants to move a certain way, while the userland software wants to move in a different way</p><p>That kind of friction would kill a human corpus. On Linux systems and servers it literally breaks things in an unexpected manner, something that you cannot afford when you&#39;re running a database where you get two million calls an hour. A database that runs in high availability with just one other VM as a concurrent live backup</p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/bash\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>bash</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/sh\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>sh</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/zsh\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>zsh</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/ksh\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>ksh</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/csh\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>csh</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/tsh\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>tsh</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/freeBSD\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>freeBSD</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/100DaysOfCode\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>100DaysOfCode</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/1000DaysOfCode\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>1000DaysOfCode</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/POSIX\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>POSIX</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Programming\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Programming</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Patch\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Patch</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/RetroComputing\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/UNIX\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>UNIX</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/History\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>History</span></a></p>", "contentMap": { "en": "<p><span class=\"h-card\" translate=\"no\"><a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@duncan_bayne\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>duncan_bayne</span></a></span> </p><p>I started to dislike SystemD more and more, as I saw that most distributions were putting hooks for SystemD in case a user would want to switch to it and started with one of the other options initially, on that particular installation.<br />With the hooks in place that process usually goes seamlessly. </p><p>In my proud opinion, if you don&#39;t want to use SystemD, nothing of it should ever be on your system</p><p>Now I can easily achieve that by just building my Linux from scratch, and I&#39;m not talking about the Linux from scratch distribution, I&#39;m talking about the way I did it when Linux was initially pushed into alt.binaries.Unix many decades ago.</p><p>All variants of *BSD have made sure that all the commands which could break, like the ifconfig commands suite we&#39;re simply fixed!</p><p>But this is the the dilemma that you will get, when the kernel is just built for itself and it&#39;s not a coherent part of the base Operating System.</p><p>What you get in practice is that your kernel wants to move a certain way, while the userland software wants to move in a different way</p><p>That kind of friction would kill a human corpus. On Linux systems and servers it literally breaks things in an unexpected manner, something that you cannot afford when you&#39;re running a database where you get two million calls an hour. A database that runs in high availability with just one other VM as a concurrent live backup</p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/bash\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>bash</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/sh\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>sh</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/zsh\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>zsh</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/ksh\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>ksh</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/csh\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>csh</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/tsh\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>tsh</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/freeBSD\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>freeBSD</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/100DaysOfCode\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>100DaysOfCode</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/1000DaysOfCode\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>1000DaysOfCode</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/POSIX\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>POSIX</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Programming\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Programming</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Patch\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Patch</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/RetroComputing\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/UNIX\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>UNIX</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/History\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>History</span></a></p>" }, "updated": "2025-02-11T07:47:26Z", "attachment": [], "tag": [ { "type": "Mention", "href": "https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/duncan_bayne", "name": "@duncan_bayne" }, { "type": "Hashtag", "href": "https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/bash", "name": "#bash" }, { "type": "Hashtag", "href": "https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/sh", "name": "#sh" }, { "type": "Hashtag", "href": "https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/zsh", "name": "#zsh" }, { "type": "Hashtag", "href": "https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/ksh", "name": "#ksh" }, { "type": "Hashtag", "href": "https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/csh", "name": "#csh" }, { "type": "Hashtag", "href": "https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/tsh", "name": "#tsh" }, { "type": "Hashtag", "href": "https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/freebsd", "name": "#freebsd" }, { "type": "Hashtag", "href": "https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/100daysofcode", "name": "#100daysofcode" }, { "type": "Hashtag", "href": "https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/1000daysofcode", "name": "#1000daysofcode" }, { "type": "Hashtag", "href": "https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/posix", "name": "#posix" }, { "type": "Hashtag", "href": "https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/programming", "name": "#programming" }, { "type": "Hashtag", "href": "https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/patch", "name": "#patch" }, { "type": "Hashtag", "href": "https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/retrocomputing", "name": "#retrocomputing" }, { "type": "Hashtag", "href": "https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/unix", "name": "#unix" }, { "type": "Hashtag", "href": "https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/history", "name": "#history" } ], "replies": { "id": "https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/Dendrobatus_Azureus/statuses/113984125870324138/replies", "type": "Collection", "first": { "type": "CollectionPage", "next": "https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/Dendrobatus_Azureus/statuses/113984125870324138/replies?min_id=113984213869270817&page=true", "partOf": "https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/Dendrobatus_Azureus/statuses/113984125870324138/replies", "items": [ "https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/Dendrobatus_Azureus/statuses/113984213869270817" ] } }, "likes": { "id": "https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/Dendrobatus_Azureus/statuses/113984125870324138/likes", "type": "Collection", "totalItems": 2 }, "shares": { "id": "https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/Dendrobatus_Azureus/statuses/113984125870324138/shares", "type": "Collection", "totalItems": 2 } }