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",
{
"ostatus": "http://ostatus.org#",
"vcard": "http://www.w3.org/2006/vcard/ns#",
"dfrn": "http://purl.org/macgirvin/dfrn/1.0/",
"diaspora": "https://diasporafoundation.org/ns/",
"litepub": "http://litepub.social/ns#",
"toot": "http://joinmastodon.org/ns#",
"featured": {
"@id": "toot:featured",
"@type": "@id"
},
"schema": "http://schema.org#",
"manuallyApprovesFollowers": "as:manuallyApprovesFollowers",
"sensitive": "as:sensitive",
"Hashtag": "as:Hashtag",
"quoteUrl": "as:quoteUrl",
"conversation": "ostatus:conversation",
"directMessage": "litepub:directMessage",
"discoverable": "toot:discoverable",
"PropertyValue": "schema:PropertyValue",
"value": "schema:value"
}
],
"id": "https://venera.social/objects/85a863ed-9066-ed58-34da-de0764667284",
"type": "Note",
"inReplyTo": null,
"diaspora:guid": "85a863ed-9066-ed58-34da-de0764667284",
"published": "2024-09-20T11:10:44Z",
"updated": "2024-09-20T12:28:20Z",
"url": "https://venera.social/display/85a863ed-9066-ed58-34da-de0764667284",
"attributedTo": "https://venera.social/profile/viznut",
"sensitive": false,
"conversation": "https://venera.social/objects/85a863ed-9066-ed58-34da-de0764667284#context",
"content": "<p>Vannevar Bush's Memex is often mentioned in histories of computing, but Paul Otlet, who had similar visions already in the 1930s, is often disregarded. In the 1920s, Otlet, with Robert Goldschmidt, had even demonstrated a microfilm-based \"library in a suitcase\" with a pocket-sized viewer. In the same era, Emanuel Goldberg invented a viewer that used perforated microfilms to automate searching, but the project ultimately failed because he was a Jew in Nazi Germany.</p><p>In an alternate history, mass-market microfilm might very well have succeeded, perhaps starting from huge encylopedias compressed in microfilm. This would have affected people's ideas and exceptations about personal computing even before it started. No need for counterculturalists such as Stewart Brand to explain why owning a computer would be cool. The technology would have situated closer to the existing literate culture and further from TV/radio. Many kids would still have found computers fascinating, but the fascination would have taken different channels based on the entirely different zeitgeist.</p>",
"contentMap": {
"en": "<p>Vannevar Bush's Memex is often mentioned in histories of computing, but Paul Otlet, who had similar visions already in the 1930s, is often disregarded. In the 1920s, Otlet, with Robert Goldschmidt, had even demonstrated a microfilm-based \"library in a suitcase\" with a pocket-sized viewer. In the same era, Emanuel Goldberg invented a viewer that used perforated microfilms to automate searching, but the project ultimately failed because he was a Jew in Nazi Germany.</p><p>In an alternate history, mass-market microfilm might very well have succeeded, perhaps starting from huge encylopedias compressed in microfilm. This would have affected people's ideas and exceptations about personal computing even before it started. No need for counterculturalists such as Stewart Brand to explain why owning a computer would be cool. The technology would have situated closer to the existing literate culture and further from TV/radio. Many kids would still have found computers fascinating, but the fascination would have taken different channels based on the entirely different zeitgeist.</p>"
},
"source": {
"content": "Vannevar Bush's Memex is often mentioned in histories of computing, but Paul Otlet, who had similar visions already in the 1930s, is often disregarded. In the 1920s, Otlet, with Robert Goldschmidt, had even demonstrated a microfilm-based \"library in a suitcase\" with a pocket-sized viewer. In the same era, Emanuel Goldberg invented a viewer that used perforated microfilms to automate searching, but the project ultimately failed because he was a Jew in Nazi Germany.\r\n\r\nIn an alternate history, mass-market microfilm might very well have succeeded, perhaps starting from huge encylopedias compressed in microfilm. This would have affected people's ideas and exceptations about personal computing even before it started. No need for counterculturalists such as Stewart Brand to explain why owning a computer would be cool. The technology would have situated closer to the existing literate culture and further from TV/radio. Many kids would still have found computers fascinating, but the fascination would have taken different channels based on the entirely different zeitgeist.",
"mediaType": "text/bbcode"
},
"attachment": [],
"tag": [],
"to": [
"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public"
],
"cc": [
"https://venera.social/followers/viznut"
]
}