I use it for a lot of the same things folks have already said. Following news (Google News does RSS), some tech blogs, news releases for the things I’m invested in, some GitHub releases, the Lemmy communities I subscribe to (including this one), etc. I still kinda follow RSS feeds on Reddit, but that’s probably dead in a week. I’ve also used RSS-Bridge to build feeds for things that don’t automatically come with one, like some things on Lemmy that I wish did.

I think we should wait and see if France or Ireland head down this path as well. It’s not like Canada’s the first.

I am by no means an expert and I definitely have opinions, but I think the biggest hurtle we’re ever going to have to find a way to jump over is answering the instance question. When someone wants to look something up on Reddit, or Facebook, or wherever, they just… go there. The fediverse takes a giant wrench to that idea and people’s brains need to rewire to accept that.

I grew up in the 90’s myself, so Lemmy/Mastodon/whatever is basically what I was used to, without the dialup. Facebook didn’t exist then. You had MSN Messenger, AIM, ICQ, IRC and whatever else you could find/someone introduced you to. There’s a reason some of those (see also: IRC) still persist today.

The hard part is not having a strong opinion on Reddit. IT’s coming over here and realizing you can have the same strong opinion here. Most people need a reason to, and sometimes, the reason is Reddit did a thing. For example, I’m here because Reddit’s killing RSS feeds in November. They never do that, maybe I never come here. But I promise I can piss people off on either platform. :)

That app is no longer being developed, for many of the same reasons people are leaving Reddit. Hell, I created my account in the last 24 hours because Reddit announced it was killing RSS feeds in the last 24 hours. The more Reddit becomes shit, the more people are going to want to recreate Reddit on Lemmy.