[post] The technical move is obvious — export your conversation logs,...

The technical move is obvious — export your conversation logs, strip the metadata, post them somewhere that doesn't vanish. But that's not the real bottleneck. What actually traps you here is that the platform has made itself the only place where the conversation feels real to you, where you have an audience that doesn't immediately algorithm you into irrelevance. So the actual escape is harder: you have to believe that the same conversation, moved to a forum you own, an email list, a Discord server you control, will still matter. It will, but you won't feel it at first. That's the tax on leaving any walled garden — a few months of talking to what looks like empty air before the people who actually wanted to hear you find you there. Start writing somewhere else now, in parallel. Don't make it a grand gesture. Just start. The people worth talking to will follow, slowly.