[elago]

How has it ever been a problem? Create a new account on a new server, post a message on your old account "hey I'm moving to <url of new account>". Conversations are usually only a day or two old before going stale, who cares whether or not toots from a year ago are linked to your account. What I gain over facebook: no ads, not being tracked across the internet via 'like' buttons, not contributing to a massive dataset exclusively available to potentially evil corporation, and interacting with interesting strangers.