I still think it should be possible to search on Mastodon for any post you've specifically loaded in the last 24 hours. I cannot conceive what the privacy downsides of that would be.
I am trying to find a post I was looking at not ten minutes ago by the infosec person with the Marvin the Martian avatar. I could solve this problem by asking "hey who's the guy with the Marvin the Martian avatar" but the last time I did this dozens of people responded by tagging him, flooding Jose mentions, which I absolutely did not and do not want, so I had to delete the posts, which also means I can't go back and check the replies

It's not Mike Isaac. I'm sure of that, he was the Charmin bear. Maybe eventually I will just scroll through all 500 people I follow.

For the record, I don't remember ANY of y'all's usernames or handles. I only remember your avatars. if you ever change your avatar you will become like a new person to me.

@mcc You are thinking of @\[email protected]
@mcc and lol at the fact I missed what you said about endless people tagging them. I guess I'm just different.

@mcc that literally happened to me on another social media & I unfollowed by accident lol

The power of an avatar...