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.sdf.org/users/argv_minus_one/statuses/114768060866012573",
"type": "Note",
"summary": null,
"inReplyTo": null,
"published": "2025-06-29T18:27:11Z",
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"attributedTo": "https://mastodon.sdf.org/users/argv_minus_one",
"to": [
"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public"
],
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],
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"content": "<p>It's kinda silly that the old <a href=\"https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Unix\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Unix</span></a> standard folders are still in use.</p><p>Many of them make zero sense in the modern day.</p><p>* /usr holds system files, not user files.<br />* /usr/share isn't shared.<br />* {,/usr}/lib holds some things that are not libraries, and some libraries (e.g. Python ones) are elsewhere.<br />* {,/usr}/bin holds textual interpreted programs in addition to binaries.<br />* /etc holds only system configuration now, not miscellaneous system files.</p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Linux\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/FHS\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>FHS</span></a></p>",
"contentMap": {
"en": "<p>It's kinda silly that the old <a href=\"https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Unix\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Unix</span></a> standard folders are still in use.</p><p>Many of them make zero sense in the modern day.</p><p>* /usr holds system files, not user files.<br />* /usr/share isn't shared.<br />* {,/usr}/lib holds some things that are not libraries, and some libraries (e.g. Python ones) are elsewhere.<br />* {,/usr}/bin holds textual interpreted programs in addition to binaries.<br />* /etc holds only system configuration now, not miscellaneous system files.</p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Linux\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/FHS\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>FHS</span></a></p>"
},
"updated": "2025-06-29T18:31:31Z",
"attachment": [],
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"type": "Hashtag",
"href": "https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/unix",
"name": "#unix"
},
{
"type": "Hashtag",
"href": "https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/linux",
"name": "#linux"
},
{
"type": "Hashtag",
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"name": "#fhs"
}
],
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"type": "Collection",
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"items": []
}
}
}