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",
"Hashtag": "as:Hashtag"
}
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"type": "Note",
"summary": null,
"inReplyTo": null,
"published": "2025-04-30T15:47:20Z",
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"attributedTo": "https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/sqrtminusone",
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"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public"
],
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],
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"content": "<p>TL;DR I'll step back from <a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Mastodon\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Mastodon</span></a>; maybe I'll occasionally post if I do something interesting. RSS is the best.</p><p>I feel like the format of "everyone posting about everything without any filter" is, after all, irredeemable. It might be fine for people with a fairly generic worldview who have enough others agreeing with them on most things. Perhaps the latter condition is illusory (I certainly hope so), but some servers' timelines suggest otherwise. And I just see so much stuff I don't want to see.</p><p>So, after all, I don't want it.</p><p>I don't know what a perfect format would be. Maybe something like:<br />- laser-focused on some specific topic,<br />- that I don't discuss much IRL,<br />- that doesn't provoke insanity in some way.</p><p>Or it should require that writing something takes more time than just typing the letters. Maybe LessWrong is a better fit in that regard. Or StackExchange.</p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Reddit\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Reddit</span></a> was reasonably nice in retrospect. I've had interesting arguments there. So, I've removed all politics from my feed, tried reading it for a couple of days... And, like, it's still not good. It's barely interesting enough to make me scroll through when I'm procrastinating.</p><p>For now, nothing beats <a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/RSS\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>RSS</span></a> with read-it-later filtering. I might write a blog post about that.</p>",
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"en": "<p>TL;DR I'll step back from <a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Mastodon\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Mastodon</span></a>; maybe I'll occasionally post if I do something interesting. RSS is the best.</p><p>I feel like the format of "everyone posting about everything without any filter" is, after all, irredeemable. It might be fine for people with a fairly generic worldview who have enough others agreeing with them on most things. Perhaps the latter condition is illusory (I certainly hope so), but some servers' timelines suggest otherwise. And I just see so much stuff I don't want to see.</p><p>So, after all, I don't want it.</p><p>I don't know what a perfect format would be. Maybe something like:<br />- laser-focused on some specific topic,<br />- that I don't discuss much IRL,<br />- that doesn't provoke insanity in some way.</p><p>Or it should require that writing something takes more time than just typing the letters. Maybe LessWrong is a better fit in that regard. Or StackExchange.</p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Reddit\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Reddit</span></a> was reasonably nice in retrospect. I've had interesting arguments there. So, I've removed all politics from my feed, tried reading it for a couple of days... And, like, it's still not good. It's barely interesting enough to make me scroll through when I'm procrastinating.</p><p>For now, nothing beats <a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/RSS\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>RSS</span></a> with read-it-later filtering. I might write a blog post about that.</p>"
},
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},
{
"type": "Hashtag",
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},
{
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}
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