A small tool to view real-world ActivityPub objects as JSON! Enter a URL
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header
to the server to view the underlying object.
{
"@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.world/users/paninid/statuses/114446746078715510",
"type": "Note",
"summary": null,
"inReplyTo": "https://mstdn.social/users/GottaLaff/statuses/114440293436700176",
"published": "2025-05-04T00:32:37Z",
"url": "https://mastodon.world/@paninid/114446746078715510",
"attributedTo": "https://mastodon.world/users/paninid",
"to": [
"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public"
],
"cc": [
"https://mastodon.world/users/paninid/followers",
"https://mstdn.social/users/GottaLaff",
"https://mastodon.social/users/PaulNickson",
"https://hachyderm.io/users/rberger"
],
"sensitive": false,
"atomUri": "https://mastodon.world/users/paninid/statuses/114446746078715510",
"inReplyToAtomUri": "https://mstdn.social/users/GottaLaff/statuses/114440293436700176",
"conversation": "tag:mstdn.social,2025-05-02:objectId=548027521:objectType=Conversation",
"content": "<p><span class=\"h-card\" translate=\"no\"><a href=\"https://mstdn.social/@GottaLaff\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>GottaLaff</span></a></span> <span class=\"h-card\" translate=\"no\"><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/@PaulNickson\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>PaulNickson</span></a></span> <span class=\"h-card\" translate=\"no\"><a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/@rberger\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>rberger</span></a></span> </p><p>But, are they? 🤨</p><p>The word <a href=\"https://mastodon.world/tags/clown\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>clown</span></a> first appeared around 1560 as clowne or cloyne, meaning “man of rustic or coarse manners, boor, peasant”.</p><p>It may connect to Scandinavian or Low German roots-such as Icelandic klunni (“clumsy, boorish fellow”) or North Frisian klönne (“clumsy person”)-all related to words for “lump” or “clod”. </p><p>This ties in with the English word clod, meaning a lump of earth, reinforcing the sense of a rough, unsophisticated country person.</p>",
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"en": "<p><span class=\"h-card\" translate=\"no\"><a href=\"https://mstdn.social/@GottaLaff\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>GottaLaff</span></a></span> <span class=\"h-card\" translate=\"no\"><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/@PaulNickson\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>PaulNickson</span></a></span> <span class=\"h-card\" translate=\"no\"><a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/@rberger\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>rberger</span></a></span> </p><p>But, are they? 🤨</p><p>The word <a href=\"https://mastodon.world/tags/clown\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>clown</span></a> first appeared around 1560 as clowne or cloyne, meaning “man of rustic or coarse manners, boor, peasant”.</p><p>It may connect to Scandinavian or Low German roots-such as Icelandic klunni (“clumsy, boorish fellow”) or North Frisian klönne (“clumsy person”)-all related to words for “lump” or “clod”. </p><p>This ties in with the English word clod, meaning a lump of earth, reinforcing the sense of a rough, unsophisticated country person.</p>"
},
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"type": "Mention",
"href": "https://mstdn.social/users/GottaLaff",
"name": "@GottaLaff@mstdn.social"
},
{
"type": "Mention",
"href": "https://mastodon.social/users/PaulNickson",
"name": "@PaulNickson@mastodon.social"
},
{
"type": "Mention",
"href": "https://hachyderm.io/users/rberger",
"name": "@rberger@hachyderm.io"
},
{
"type": "Hashtag",
"href": "https://mastodon.world/tags/clown",
"name": "#clown"
}
],
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"items": []
}
},
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"type": "Collection",
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},
"shares": {
"id": "https://mastodon.world/users/paninid/statuses/114446746078715510/shares",
"type": "Collection",
"totalItems": 3
}
}