What stands out to me is the call-out against "Data miners". This is ironic to me in that twitter has been historically one of the LEAST friendly platforms for data ingestion. They have very strict limits on # of historical tweets fetched, firehose access (to summarize, "no you can't have it"), and utilization of data, to the point that in most discussions about the platform they're seen as very closed. (or at least too risky to rely on) The author even acknowledges this in his having to use a third party service to extract the tweets to a _more searchable_ subdomain?<p>I guess what this ramble is meaning to say: Where does the author's globbing-in of "Data miners" come from, why the distaste, and how does mastadon solve the issue?