John Spurlock馃憖 BrowserPub: A browser for exploring #ActivityPub and the 鈦俧ediverse
The idea here is to make it a bit easier to see how well the various players in the fediverse support the C2S side of the ActivityPub spec.
You can punch in any ActivityPub discoverable web url or fediverse handle, and BrowserPub will discover and display the underlying AP:
e.g.
social profiles: https://browser.pub/https://mastodon.social/@mastodon
or posts:
https://browser.pub/https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/113005517546136592
or fediverse handles:
https://browser.pub/@Gargron@mastodon.social
or even usernames (defaults to mastodon.social for now):
https://browser.pub/Gargron
BrowserPub defaults to a visual representation of the object (if a known type)
everything here is powered by ActivityPub, no server-specific APIs
you can also view the underlying ActivityPub object as JSON...
It'll work on ActivityPub-enabled wordpress sites:
... or posts:
https://browser.pub/https%3A%2F%2Fandypiper.co.uk%2F2024%2F08%2F11%2Fsynology-issues%2F
For known collection properties (like outbox, followers, featured, etc), it will preview the collection and support paging via a "next" link:
Here's a Lemmy group
And here's @manton 's profile using micro.blog's AP endpoint
Threads posts and profiles are also available, for users that have checked the magic box
Here's a post:
https://browser.pub/https://www.threads.net/@evanprodromou/post/C8qtHZEuA0Q
While Threads does not support the replies collection yet, they do support the inReplyTo pointer, which BrowserPub renders above
https://browser.pub/https://www.threads.net/@evanprodromou/post/C-0iXNmvgj7
BrowserPub also supports the new fediverse:creator discovery mechanism
Bluesky profiles that are bridged can also be rendered
e.g. @snarfed.org bridged bsky profile
https://browser.pub/https://bsky.brid.gy/ap/did:plc:3ljmtyyjqcjee2kpewgsifvb
Hmm, I'd love to be able to render a more dynamic og:image at some point 馃
Here's a podcast from @dave 's podcastindex bridge
BrowserPub also tries to render custom emojis in content and profile headers, these are in the ActivityPub payload after all
even animated ones
https://browser.pub/https://bolha.one/users/joaonaweb/statuses/112978564080782762
and of course Flipboard is supported (cc @mike) nothing special, just the same ActivityPub spec implementation
https://browser.pub/https%3A%2F%2Fflipboard.social%2Fusers%2Farunshah
so even though Threads doesn't return collection items in the ActivityPub payload yet, it _does_ include the counts - so at least I can display those
just pushed it live
https://browser.pub/https://threads.net/ap/users/17841401083120503/
Polls are not a Mastodon-specific feature, they can be expressed well in standard ActivityPub, which means standards-based apps like BrowserPub can render them
Here is a recent poll example from @evan
https://browser.pub/https://cosocial.ca/@evan/113005485605693174
looks like someone submitted it to hacker news!
and looks like Ghost got their outbox and posts ActivityPub working
although they are not in reverse chron like everyone else (@johnonolan, was this intentional?)
John O'Nolan@js thanks! We鈥檒l fix :)
馃敟馃敟馃敟 with tests!
and appears to be live: https://browser.pub/@index@activitypub.ghost.org