Years of photographs and writing are a poor reason to feel stuck with an app. A social network should earn your decision to stay, not rely on how much you'd leave behind.
TouchGrass lets you export account data, including posts and media. Make a personal archive or keep a backup before changing how you use social media. The history you've collected has a value of its own, whether or not you continue posting here.
An old photo collection can hold things you'd love to share again and things you'd rather leave in the past. Import selected memories, review them and choose what belongs on your profile now. Moving to a new app needn't mean publishing your entire history again.
Exports look after your collection; open connections help look after your relationships. TouchGrass connects with Mastodon and Bluesky, so friends can choose different places to be. Those are two practical ways to make your choice of social network less permanent.
