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"
}
],
"id": "https://social.coop/users/eob/statuses/109317837019563926",
"type": "Note",
"summary": "Infrastructure engineering question about Mastodon",
"inReplyTo": null,
"published": "2022-11-10T05:23:35Z",
"url": "https://social.coop/@eob/109317837019563926",
"attributedTo": "https://social.coop/users/eob",
"to": [
"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public"
],
"cc": [
"https://social.coop/users/eob/followers"
],
"sensitive": true,
"atomUri": "https://social.coop/users/eob/statuses/109317837019563926",
"inReplyToAtomUri": null,
"conversation": "tag:social.coop,2022-11-10:objectId=40954678:objectType=Conversation",
"content": "<p>My understanding of Twitter infrastructure is that dealing with large fanout (i.e. accounts with millions of followers) is particularly challenging and costly.</p><p>In Mastodon, what happens if one popular user gets a million followers from instances all over the fediverse?</p><p>Would anything break? How would the machine costs be shared between the popular user's instance and the followers' instances?</p>",
"contentMap": {
"en": "<p>My understanding of Twitter infrastructure is that dealing with large fanout (i.e. accounts with millions of followers) is particularly challenging and costly.</p><p>In Mastodon, what happens if one popular user gets a million followers from instances all over the fediverse?</p><p>Would anything break? How would the machine costs be shared between the popular user's instance and the followers' instances?</p>"
},
"attachment": [],
"tag": [],
"replies": {
"id": "https://social.coop/users/eob/statuses/109317837019563926/replies",
"type": "Collection",
"first": {
"type": "CollectionPage",
"next": "https://social.coop/users/eob/statuses/109317837019563926/replies?only_other_accounts=true&page=true",
"partOf": "https://social.coop/users/eob/statuses/109317837019563926/replies",
"items": []
}
},
"likes": {
"id": "https://social.coop/users/eob/statuses/109317837019563926/likes",
"type": "Collection",
"totalItems": 2
},
"shares": {
"id": "https://social.coop/users/eob/statuses/109317837019563926/shares",
"type": "Collection",
"totalItems": 1
}
}