@evan To me, the answer is like with emails. I am happy I can use whatever I want to organize the emails that come to my inbox. Otherwise, I would not be able to set up rules and filters over them. I expect the same from the Fediverse. Since I have a self-hosted Mastodon instance, sometimes I usually run SQL queries or scripts to find some information. I think I will convert the Mastodon database into a knowledge graph that I can read in an easier way than just a sequential timeline.