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"
}
],
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"type": "Note",
"summary": null,
"inReplyTo": null,
"published": "2025-06-14T21:44:52Z",
"url": "https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/@nateb/114683903492583306",
"attributedTo": "https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/users/nateb",
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"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public"
],
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"https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/users/nateb/followers"
],
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"content": "<p>So the latest version of <a href=\"https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/PeerTube\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>PeerTube</span></a> recommends locking the peertube user (chsh -s /usr/bin/nologin peertube), but I back up the database by using `su - peertube` then `pg_dump -U peertube Fc peertube_prod > peertube_prod-dump.db` and exporting that .db to a backup location. So how am I supposed to back up my database now if I'm not supposed to access that user account?</p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/TechSupport\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>TechSupport</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/FediAdmin\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>FediAdmin</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/FediHelp\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>FediHelp</span></a></p>",
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"en": "<p>So the latest version of <a href=\"https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/PeerTube\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>PeerTube</span></a> recommends locking the peertube user (chsh -s /usr/bin/nologin peertube), but I back up the database by using `su - peertube` then `pg_dump -U peertube Fc peertube_prod > peertube_prod-dump.db` and exporting that .db to a backup location. So how am I supposed to back up my database now if I'm not supposed to access that user account?</p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/TechSupport\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>TechSupport</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/FediAdmin\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>FediAdmin</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/FediHelp\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>FediHelp</span></a></p>"
},
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},
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},
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},
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}
],
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"items": []
}
},
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},
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}
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