mastodon-fuse allows you to mount fediverse as a file system.

Timelines are presented as files and folders. Hashtags and stars are compatible with the Nautilus file browser.

Following is performed using symlinks.

@xssfox Iirc this was basically how BeOS stored emails, and there was a lot of desire to do this kind of thing. There's an alternative future where mapping network resources to our file system is normal.
@xssfox @nurbs Exposing a *maildir* compatible filesystem structure would be perfect. Can use pine or dovecot on top.