@janl@chaos.social Right, I get that you currently have no interest to do so, and I'm inclined to believe you, but this is what it gives you access to, now or in the indefinite future.

Thing is though, Mastodon already has Elasticsearch support, and it's an explicit choice to scope the search functionality to just your own toots, hashtags and posts you've actually interacted with, not just the ones you could've seen passing by.

It's like this because of social reasons, not technical issues that need solving, and that's what all the scraper- and adjacent projects seem to get wrong.