Moderation is one of those things people don’t really notice when it is working. Well. A few do. Usually when they start hurling slurs around and find out that their post got removed. Or if the account has a history of bad behaviour that they’ve been politely asked to leave.  For everyone else, things just […]

Since the start, we’ve done our best to make choices that are in the long-term interest of the Gander community. Locking in our mission as a Benefit Company. Getting Trust & Safety systems into place before harm happens. The whole exclusively Canadian infrastructure thing. Steady growth. You know the drill by now: we’re doing everything […]

The other day, someone commented on one of our Facebook posts: “What’s taking so long? We already have this technology. You’re not reinventing the wheel.” Granted, they weren’t in our Early Access Program, so they hadn’t seen the infrastructure, app, or moderation policies, and neither had they connected with the lovely community that’s grown there […]

TL;DR: Gander Social is incorporated as a Benefit Company: a for-profit business with a legally binding public benefit. Our public benefit is to build trustworthy social infrastructure that protects user dignity, digital sovereignty, and democratic participation. As a Benefit Company, we’re legally obligated to consider users, communities, and the public interest alongside profit, and we […]

TL;DR A few weeks ago, we took a deep breath and quietly launched an equity crowdfunding campaign: https://frontfundr.com/gandersocial It’s been a wild ride since. After hitting our early milestones, way faster than we anticipated, we’re opening things up to the rest of Canada.  If you’re new to Gander (or this whole crowdinvesting thing) we wrote […]