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",
"https://pl.eragon.re/schemas/litepub-0.1.jsonld",
{
"@language": "und"
}
],
"actor": "https://pl.eragon.re/users/followbot",
"attachment": [],
"attributedTo": "https://pl.eragon.re/users/followbot",
"cc": [
"https://pl.eragon.re/users/followbot/followers"
],
"content": "<p>It seems that some people may need more informations about what followbot are and why I have one on this server.</p><p>First, feel free to block this bot if it annoys you.</p><p>Due to the nature of the fediverse it is hard for a single user instance or small instances to federate and get a diverse federated timeline.<br/>An instance only gets posts from other instances that knows that it exists.<br/>To fix that the different fediverse software servers have their solutions.<br/>For Pleroma and Akkoma there are relays, but most of them are poor quality, badly moderated and depends on a remote admin to manage it.<br/>The alternative to relays are followbots. It's a simple rule in pleroma's software that uses this account to request follows from unknown users on unknown instances.<br/>It's supposed to follow <a class=\"hashtag\" data-tag=\"nobot\" href=\"https://pl.eragon.re/tag/nobot\">#nobot</a>. But it might fail to respect it. I didn't write the bots code and don't know how to fix it if it fail, sorry, block the bot I guess…</p>",
"context": "https://pl.eragon.re/contexts/82cacd15-00b5-4ac1-9c4a-8d151b84dbdd",
"conversation": "https://pl.eragon.re/contexts/82cacd15-00b5-4ac1-9c4a-8d151b84dbdd",
"id": "https://pl.eragon.re/objects/43f6ce4e-8cb9-4c6b-a847-a8da04b8b778",
"published": "2025-04-27T18:46:38.538513Z",
"sensitive": null,
"source": {
"content": "It seems that some people may need more informations about what followbot are and why I have one on this server.\r\n\r\nFirst, feel free to block this bot if it annoys you.\r\n\r\nDue to the nature of the fediverse it is hard for a single user instance or small instances to federate and get a diverse federated timeline. \r\nAn instance only gets posts from other instances that knows that it exists. \r\nTo fix that the different fediverse software servers have their solutions. \r\nFor Pleroma and Akkoma there are relays, but most of them are poor quality, badly moderated and depends on a remote admin to manage it. \r\nThe alternative to relays are followbots. It's a simple rule in pleroma's software that uses this account to request follows from unknown users on unknown instances. \r\nIt's supposed to follow #nobot. But it might fail to respect it. I didn't write the bots code and don't know how to fix it if it fail, sorry, block the bot I guess…",
"mediaType": "text/markdown"
},
"summary": "",
"tag": [
{
"href": "https://pl.eragon.re/tags/nobot",
"name": "#nobot",
"type": "Hashtag"
}
],
"to": [
"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public"
],
"type": "Note"
}