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",
"Hashtag": "as:Hashtag"
}
],
"id": "https://mstdn.social/users/scottmiller42/statuses/114631939730705843",
"type": "Note",
"summary": null,
"inReplyTo": null,
"published": "2025-06-05T17:29:48Z",
"url": "https://mstdn.social/@scottmiller42/114631939730705843",
"attributedTo": "https://mstdn.social/users/scottmiller42",
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"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public"
],
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"https://mstdn.social/users/scottmiller42/followers"
],
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"content": "<p>In the last two weeks, I've read two different people expressing a general complaint about normal use of hashtags, and I just don't get it. Can someone explain this viewpoint to me? </p><p>To be clear, I am not talking about someone who quietly chooses not to use hashtags in their own toots.</p><p>Also, I am not talking about hashtag spamming, the deliberate use of off-topic tags.</p><p><a href=\"https://mstdn.social/tags/MastodonQuestion\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>MastodonQuestion</span></a> <a href=\"https://mstdn.social/tags/Hashtags\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Hashtags</span></a></p>",
"contentMap": {
"en": "<p>In the last two weeks, I've read two different people expressing a general complaint about normal use of hashtags, and I just don't get it. Can someone explain this viewpoint to me? </p><p>To be clear, I am not talking about someone who quietly chooses not to use hashtags in their own toots.</p><p>Also, I am not talking about hashtag spamming, the deliberate use of off-topic tags.</p><p><a href=\"https://mstdn.social/tags/MastodonQuestion\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>MastodonQuestion</span></a> <a href=\"https://mstdn.social/tags/Hashtags\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Hashtags</span></a></p>"
},
"attachment": [],
"tag": [
{
"type": "Hashtag",
"href": "https://mstdn.social/tags/MastodonQuestion",
"name": "#MastodonQuestion"
},
{
"type": "Hashtag",
"href": "https://mstdn.social/tags/hashtags",
"name": "#hashtags"
}
],
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"https://mstdn.social/users/scottmiller42/statuses/114631950187033998"
]
}
},
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},
"shares": {
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}
}