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 […]

We’re verifying users are real adults before they can post or chat on Gander.

It’s a doozie. Not because of any one feature, but because a lot of the core experience has been implemented as we originally intended. Feeds, discovery, structure, control, and conversation: the things that, on top of moderation, better deliver a saner social experience.  If you’ve been using Gander already, you’ll feel it pretty quickly. We […]

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 […]