fosstodon.org is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
Fosstodon is an invite only Mastodon instance that is open to those who are interested in technology; particularly free & open source software.
If you wish to join, contact us for an invite.
I am always surprised that every data site includes half-baked data analysis tools. Surely everyone just wants to download the data so they can look at it in their favourite tool?