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 […]

You know it as well as I do: social media sucks. The platforms we rely on are run by foreign giants, driven by surveillance ads and algorithms that reward outrage. Gander is different. It’s a new Canadian-built social platform shaped by real users, designed to feel informative, communal, protective, and authentic. And your data stays […]

TL;DR At Gander we’re doing something hard but necessary: building a platform (and a company) that treats sovereignty, privacy, and trust as non-negotiables. We sat down with our COO Jen Mitchell to get some insight into how we make decisions, how we manage tradeoffs, and why “progress over perfection” is our operating stance.  Later this […]