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", "Hashtag": "as:Hashtag" } ], "id": "https://sphere.fx4.net/users/Scott/statuses/109665900604645968", "type": "Note", "summary": null, "inReplyTo": null, "published": "2023-01-10T16:40:44Z", "url": "https://sphere.fx4.net/@Scott/109665900604645968", "attributedTo": "https://sphere.fx4.net/users/Scott", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://sphere.fx4.net/users/Scott/followers" ], "sensitive": false, "atomUri": "https://sphere.fx4.net/users/Scott/statuses/109665900604645968", "inReplyToAtomUri": null, "conversation": "tag:sphere.fx4.net,2023-01-10:objectId=96658:objectType=Conversation", "content": "<p><a href=\"https://sphere.fx4.net/tags/Photographers\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Photographers</span></a> of Mastodon<br />In my post on hashtags, I was called out (by a few) as elitist, and for denigrating (or downgrading) photos by using the term Snapshot. It was not my intent to offend so I reached out to several pro photographers looking for a better term. There isn’t one, it’s the proper term. </p><p>Snaphots are a technical term for a type of photography. A subset of Vernacular photography, an umbrella term used to distinguish artistic photographs from those made for a huge range of other purposes, including commercial, scientific, forensic, governmental, and personal. Snapshots capturing everyday life and subjects are a major form of vernacular photography (1). </p><p>Photos of a moment in time, person, place or thing, that aren’t journalistic, are snapshots. No judgment of quality, ability, or merit is implied. It is assumed by many that snapshots not edited for appearance (that would still make them vernacular, but many would consider them no longer snapshots). Snapshots often do not have relevance outside of the purpose of their capture, but are highly relevant within it. </p><p>Snapshots can also be (or become) artistic, can also be high quality photos (think candids by a wedding photographer). A more refined form of snapshots is Reportage (2).</p><p>Vernacular Photography (snapshots) are the subject of many museum exhibitions (3)</p><p>Universally the photographers I talked to say they frequently take snapshots, and none of them consider it a derogatory term.</p>", "contentMap": { "en": "<p><a href=\"https://sphere.fx4.net/tags/Photographers\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Photographers</span></a> of Mastodon<br />In my post on hashtags, I was called out (by a few) as elitist, and for denigrating (or downgrading) photos by using the term Snapshot. It was not my intent to offend so I reached out to several pro photographers looking for a better term. There isn’t one, it’s the proper term. </p><p>Snaphots are a technical term for a type of photography. A subset of Vernacular photography, an umbrella term used to distinguish artistic photographs from those made for a huge range of other purposes, including commercial, scientific, forensic, governmental, and personal. Snapshots capturing everyday life and subjects are a major form of vernacular photography (1). </p><p>Photos of a moment in time, person, place or thing, that aren’t journalistic, are snapshots. No judgment of quality, ability, or merit is implied. It is assumed by many that snapshots not edited for appearance (that would still make them vernacular, but many would consider them no longer snapshots). Snapshots often do not have relevance outside of the purpose of their capture, but are highly relevant within it. </p><p>Snapshots can also be (or become) artistic, can also be high quality photos (think candids by a wedding photographer). A more refined form of snapshots is Reportage (2).</p><p>Vernacular Photography (snapshots) are the subject of many museum exhibitions (3)</p><p>Universally the photographers I talked to say they frequently take snapshots, and none of them consider it a derogatory term.</p>" }, "attachment": [], "tag": [ { "type": "Hashtag", "href": "https://sphere.fx4.net/tags/photographers", "name": "#photographers" } ], "replies": { "id": "https://sphere.fx4.net/users/Scott/statuses/109665900604645968/replies", "type": "Collection", "first": { "type": "CollectionPage", "next": "https://sphere.fx4.net/users/Scott/statuses/109665900604645968/replies?min_id=109665901182634325&page=true", "partOf": "https://sphere.fx4.net/users/Scott/statuses/109665900604645968/replies", "items": [ "https://sphere.fx4.net/users/Scott/statuses/109665901182634325" ] } }, "likes": { "id": "https://sphere.fx4.net/users/Scott/statuses/109665900604645968/likes", "type": "Collection", "totalItems": 6 }, "shares": { "id": "https://sphere.fx4.net/users/Scott/statuses/109665900604645968/shares", "type": "Collection", "totalItems": 5 } }