I am new to both Lemmy and the fediverse. Today is my second day using Memmy. It feels similar enough to Narwhal, which I was using for Reddit. I have not had any glaring “ooh, I don’t like this at all” moments. Which is a big deal because I’m a user interface engineer. UI stuff bothers me all the damn time.

I wonder if this level of abstraction will mean a long-term sustainment of the golden days that past social platforms have had in early adopter periods. Specifically I mean platforms that predate Reddit, eg. Twitter, Digg, StumbleUpon, even FB in the pre-genpop days. Prior to that is before my time of early adoption (MySpace, LiveJournal, Friendster), so I have less historical context.