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I want my posts to be accesable
If you mean you want to move the entire account to somewhere else as if it started there, you can't. If you were to create an account on a new instance and imported your old profile data you'd save yourself the time of resubscribing to communities etc but your post history would be brand new again. You can have accounts/alts on multiple instances though and people often do. Some people keep them as backups, some swap accounts multiple times a day for whatever reason.
Using an alternative frontend is different. You login using the same credentials you already have on that instance. All that changes is the UI you're using, everything on the backend is still the same and you are still the same person to the rest of the Fediverse.