Today, a very niche tip for techy people!
If you want to use Mastodon through a command line interface or text-based user interface, there's a tool you can install which offers both called "toot":
This software is written by @ihabunek
(NOTE: This software has no connection to the mobile apps @tootapp or @tooot, they just have similar-sounding names.)
You can export CSV files on the Mastodon web interface?
@feditips
Yes, on Import/Export on your preferences, but specifically *NOT* followers which was what prompted the search that led me to test this program when the big mastodon.art temporary defederation from the other day happened. There's other ways, but this one has the advantage of actually logging in to your account, so you can do this even when you have your followers list private which other solutions i've seen don't have. Plus, well, fully using the account on the CLI :D