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://w3id.org/security/v1"
],
"attributedTo": "https://preferred.social/u/freamon",
"audience": "https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta",
"cc": [
"https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta",
"https://preferred.social/u/freamon/followers"
],
"content": "<p>It's subtly different though. This is essentially providing an auto-complete to community searching, whether your instance already has a copy of the community or not. It would work even for a brand-new instance that hadn't subscribed to anything yet.</p>\n<p>What that bot is doing isn't necessarily a good thing (if no real person is subscribed to something, then all the traffic is just pollution). 3rd party hacks can't compete with actually-integrated features.</p>\n",
"distinguished": false,
"id": "https://preferred.social/comment/334840",
"inReplyTo": "https://thelemmy.club/comment/17266958",
"language": {
"identifier": "en",
"name": "English"
},
"mediaType": "text/html",
"published": "2025-03-12T02:51:49.136016+00:00",
"source": {
"content": "It's subtly different though. This is essentially providing an auto-complete to community searching, whether your instance already has a copy of the community or not. It would work even for a brand-new instance that hadn't subscribed to anything yet.\n\nWhat that bot is doing isn't necessarily a good thing (if no real person is subscribed to something, then all the traffic is just pollution). 3rd party hacks can't compete with actually-integrated features.",
"mediaType": "text/markdown"
},
"to": [
"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public",
"https://thelemmy.club/u/bdonvr"
],
"type": "Note"
}