Hi all! I'm #newhere on social.isurf.ca to give Friendi.ca a whirl as a potential destination for this Google+ refugee. I actually registered a few days ago, at about the same time as I joined Diaspora ( @Murray J Brown ), where many other refugees have gone. I've been drawn back upon favourable comments made by @Shelenn Ayres.

First Impressions:
I like the broad interoperability Friendi.ca has with both the Federation (e.g., Diaspora) and the Fediverse (e.g., Mastodon, where I also have accounts: @mjb ).

The look & feel of the Friendi.ca user interface is somewhat more familiar and intuitive (to me, anyways) than Diaspora, with many features the other lacks, although its visual aesthetic doesn't quite have the appeal of a more modern design (e.g., Pluspora). Yet, both are much nicer, in my view, than the Twitter-ish look & feel of Mastodon.

However, this social.isurf.ca pod is also much slower than Pluspora (which recently added capacity to handle an influx of refugees); I had to disable a Firefox browser extension (which I'd been using for ages everywhere else) that was being overly taxed by the site. Hopefully, this is a capacity issue that will be rectified as more users join.

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