ActivityPub Viewer

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.

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{ "@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.paulderaaij.nl/users/pderaaij/statuses/109313798290613630/activity", "type": "Create", "actor": "https://social.paulderaaij.nl/users/pderaaij", "published": "2022-11-09T12:16:29Z", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://social.paulderaaij.nl/users/pderaaij/followers" ], "object": { "id": "https://social.paulderaaij.nl/users/pderaaij/statuses/109313798290613630", "type": "Note", "summary": null, "inReplyTo": null, "published": "2022-11-09T12:16:29Z", "url": "https://social.paulderaaij.nl/@pderaaij/109313798290613630", "attributedTo": "https://social.paulderaaij.nl/users/pderaaij", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://social.paulderaaij.nl/users/pderaaij/followers" ], "sensitive": false, "atomUri": "https://social.paulderaaij.nl/users/pderaaij/statuses/109313798290613630", "inReplyToAtomUri": null, "conversation": "tag:social.paulderaaij.nl,2022-11-09:objectId=245:objectType=Conversation", "content": "<p>As I am now running my own instance I got more confused how the Fediverse works. Seems to be that as a new instance I only get new updates from other discovered instances.</p><p>When viewing the details of a person I follow I can only see the information my instance has received. To see one&#39;s followers I need to go to the original instance, it does not fetch that info in some way. Same goes for viewing older posts. </p><p>Am I missing something in my setup or is this how it works?</p>", "contentMap": { "en": "<p>As I am now running my own instance I got more confused how the Fediverse works. Seems to be that as a new instance I only get new updates from other discovered instances.</p><p>When viewing the details of a person I follow I can only see the information my instance has received. To see one&#39;s followers I need to go to the original instance, it does not fetch that info in some way. Same goes for viewing older posts. </p><p>Am I missing something in my setup or is this how it works?</p>" }, "attachment": [], "tag": [], "replies": { "id": "https://social.paulderaaij.nl/users/pderaaij/statuses/109313798290613630/replies", "type": "Collection", "first": { "type": "CollectionPage", "next": "https://social.paulderaaij.nl/users/pderaaij/statuses/109313798290613630/replies?only_other_accounts=true&page=true", "partOf": "https://social.paulderaaij.nl/users/pderaaij/statuses/109313798290613630/replies", "items": [] } }, "likes": { "id": "https://social.paulderaaij.nl/users/pderaaij/statuses/109313798290613630/likes", "type": "Collection", "totalItems": 0 }, "shares": { "id": "https://social.paulderaaij.nl/users/pderaaij/statuses/109313798290613630/shares", "type": "Collection", "totalItems": 0 } } }