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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"conversation": "ostatus:conversation",
"sensitive": "as:sensitive",
"toot": "http://joinmastodon.org/ns#",
"votersCount": "toot:votersCount"
}
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"published": "2022-12-01T22:43:00Z",
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"content": "<p>This is an unusually optimistic account of the dynamics of moderation on Mastodon in terms of scalability, based on what could be called a 'virtuous cycle of intra-community dynamics' with de-federation as the measure of last resort. A bit like the threat of forking in open-source projects.</p><p>"Instead of expecting instance moderators to moderate incoming toxicity from thousands of other instances, instance owners can be held heavily accountable for their users ... Since instance owners are either running their instance for community purposes, or for profit via donations, user loss is very harmful. As such, there is an economy of accountability which shifts moderation to the source, rather than the destination. ... With instance moderators held accountable for their own instances, this significantly reduces the moderation burden on other instances. It also creates a double-moderation system, where if some badness does slip past the source instance’s moderators, moderators on the recipient instances can pick up the slack."</p><p><a href=\"https://escapingtech.com/tech/opinions/i-was-wrong-about-mastodon-moderation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" translate=\"no\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://</span><span class=\"ellipsis\">escapingtech.com/tech/opinions</span><span class=\"invisible\">/i-was-wrong-about-mastodon-moderation.html</span></a></p>",
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