Usually you get outbox.json and image files after opening the downloaded compressed file...

In FireFox you can View #Mastodon #Backup file / The #Export #Outbox #JSON file

See #video here showing exactly: https://mastodon.online/@almodozo/109481007387299591

It's not as good as #Twitter and... " *miles* from what you're used to with your Twitter archive, which you can browse just the same as the site itself. "

" The search box [in Firefox] means you can quickly look up toots you'd never otherwise find; but the whole thing is like reading the source code of a webpage, the texts of your toots buried in thickets of tags down opaque navigational trees. "

See #video here showing exactly: https://mastodon.online/@almodozo/109481007387299591