A thread discussing the need for Mastodon archival services ↓
https://cosocial.ca/@evan/117113173208161488

my highlight:
"A lot of people don't want this, though. They want to exercise their right to be forgotten. Or they want to enjoy the ephemerality of temporary posts. They don't want their data stored in a system they don't have direct control of."

Mastodon offers robust APIs for exporting content
I am using this simple script, daily, to keep an archive in DuckDB
https://github.com/olithissen/masto.sh