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.
{
"@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",
"blurhash": "toot:blurhash",
"focalPoint": {
"@container": "@list",
"@id": "toot:focalPoint"
}
}
],
"id": "https://mstdn.social/users/feditips/statuses/110214025423529255",
"type": "Note",
"summary": null,
"inReplyTo": "https://mstdn.social/users/feditips/statuses/110209876836973494",
"published": "2023-04-17T11:56:05Z",
"url": "https://mstdn.social/@feditips/110214025423529255",
"attributedTo": "https://mstdn.social/users/feditips",
"to": [
"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public"
],
"cc": [
"https://mstdn.social/users/feditips/followers"
],
"sensitive": false,
"atomUri": "https://mstdn.social/users/feditips/statuses/110214025423529255",
"inReplyToAtomUri": "https://mstdn.social/users/feditips/statuses/110209876836973494",
"conversation": "tag:mstdn.social,2023-04-16:objectId=193338629:objectType=Conversation",
"content": "<p>p.s. Twitter forces all links to go through its own t.co link shortener. Most people probably don't realise this, because the t.co links just look like normal links.</p><p>You can see this on Firefox on a computer. Hovering the mouse over a link shows its true URL in the bottom left corner.</p><p>On Twitter, all links are actually t.co addresses, so Twitter will be able to track people clicking on them.</p><p>On Mastodon, links are exactly what they appear to be.</p><p>See the screenshots for a comparison.</p>",
"contentMap": {
"en": "<p>p.s. Twitter forces all links to go through its own t.co link shortener. Most people probably don't realise this, because the t.co links just look like normal links.</p><p>You can see this on Firefox on a computer. Hovering the mouse over a link shows its true URL in the bottom left corner.</p><p>On Twitter, all links are actually t.co addresses, so Twitter will be able to track people clicking on them.</p><p>On Mastodon, links are exactly what they appear to be.</p><p>See the screenshots for a comparison.</p>"
},
"attachment": [
{
"type": "Document",
"mediaType": "image/png",
"url": "https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/110/214/003/579/793/990/original/7e14808ff52a2b23.png",
"name": "Screenshot of page from Twitter where a link and its actual URL are highlighted with arrows. The actual URL is shown in the bottom left corner when hovering over the link in Firefox.",
"blurhash": "UR9aEznMROxuVWW.bES4Y8InV?t7Mbofoffl",
"focalPoint": [
-0.82,
-1
],
"width": 1015,
"height": 966
},
{
"type": "Document",
"mediaType": "image/png",
"url": "https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/110/214/012/475/356/727/original/eab99a2d43c840e3.png",
"name": "Screenshot of Mastodon with a profile's links highlighted, showing that a link to thunderbird.net does actually lead to the URL thunderbird.net.",
"blurhash": "UE9@9q$dDiE2?dNrD%IoNfI.V[s;a0nO%Mx]",
"focalPoint": [
-0.89,
-0.97
],
"width": 1205,
"height": 957
}
],
"tag": [],
"replies": {
"id": "https://mstdn.social/users/feditips/statuses/110214025423529255/replies",
"type": "Collection",
"first": {
"type": "CollectionPage",
"next": "https://mstdn.social/users/feditips/statuses/110214025423529255/replies?only_other_accounts=true&page=true",
"partOf": "https://mstdn.social/users/feditips/statuses/110214025423529255/replies",
"items": []
}
}
}