@kensanata Partly agree. The downloadable Twitter archive is quite neat, actually:
https://support.twitter.com/articles/20170160#
You basically get an entire website containing all your old tweets and retweets, ordered by month. It can be stored locally and includes decent search functionality. I use it quite often to search my > 10000 (!) old tweets.
I would love a similar feature here on Mastodon.
@stefanieschulte @kensanata This inacessability of data is one of the reasons I heavily dislike bulletin boards too.
G+ offers a takeout (at least, although the formatting seems to change every other hour) and Mastodon offers a similar means via simple HTTP access. So I can grep my data. And it even allos me to grab your stream, which isn't possible on G+.
