For the people who would love to save copies of their posts, so they can post it elsewhere (or have a backup archive in addition to the one Mastodon gives you), I recommend using Mastodon Content Mover.
I have tested it and while its function is to repost all your posts from your old instance to your new one, it also tickles my archiving bone as you can also use it to save all your posts.
PLEASE READ THE "WHAT IT CAN'T DO" SECTION THOUGH. You, you kinda gotta.
The way it will work is that you have to right click on the folder you've named MastodonContentMover, copy/paste the instructions for the terminal that will pop up, and then let it save. By the end, you will have a folder for each post you did, marked with dates. As the site says, you can also save each posts with hashtags, check the public posting to private, etc.
Not only will it save your images that each post may have had, it will save your text posts in a xml format. You can easily open these with Notepad, Notepad++, VS Code, etc. The image attached is an example of one of my posts when you open the thing.
I have not unfortunately tested the posting part because that would be a lot of posts for me...but give it a try if you think it'll work for you :v
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