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"
},
"Hashtag": "as:Hashtag"
}
],
"id": "https://oldfriends.live/users/paul/statuses/113689872542637401",
"type": "Note",
"summary": null,
"inReplyTo": null,
"published": "2024-12-21T08:29:43Z",
"url": "https://oldfriends.live/@paul/113689872542637401",
"attributedTo": "https://oldfriends.live/users/paul",
"to": [
"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public"
],
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"https://oldfriends.live/users/paul/followers"
],
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"content": "<p>Is there any rhyme or reason in the way Mastodon comes up with the ID of a post? Any way to decode part of it? A link to docs about it? I'm still looking for docs about it. </p><p> For one post, I notice part of the ID is the same on my server (image 1) and the original server (image 2).</p><p>I wish there was a date portion so we could look and see the month, year and day of a post in there with the rest of the, probably randomized or generated by the database, ID. <a href=\"https://oldfriends.live/tags/MastoAdmin\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>MastoAdmin</span></a> <a href=\"https://oldfriends.live/tags/mastoDev\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>mastoDev</span></a></p>",
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"en": "<p>Is there any rhyme or reason in the way Mastodon comes up with the ID of a post? Any way to decode part of it? A link to docs about it? I'm still looking for docs about it. </p><p> For one post, I notice part of the ID is the same on my server (image 1) and the original server (image 2).</p><p>I wish there was a date portion so we could look and see the month, year and day of a post in there with the rest of the, probably randomized or generated by the database, ID. <a href=\"https://oldfriends.live/tags/MastoAdmin\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>MastoAdmin</span></a> <a href=\"https://oldfriends.live/tags/mastoDev\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>mastoDev</span></a></p>"
},
"attachment": [
{
"type": "Document",
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"name": "a series of digits, first 8 being identical to the other image in this post.",
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0,
0
],
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},
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0,
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],
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}
],
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"type": "Hashtag",
"href": "https://oldfriends.live/tags/mastoadmin",
"name": "#mastoadmin"
},
{
"type": "Hashtag",
"href": "https://oldfriends.live/tags/mastodev",
"name": "#mastodev"
}
],
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"items": []
}
},
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"totalItems": 3
},
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"id": "https://oldfriends.live/users/paul/statuses/113689872542637401/shares",
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"totalItems": 0
}
}