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Arlene Dickinson and Amber Mac cut ties with Canadian social media startup Gander Social - The Globe and Mail (www.theglobeandmail.com)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/buycanadian@lemmy.ca
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What is Gander Social?
Gander Social is a new social platform being built by a Canadian team that wants to make online interaction safer and more meaningful. The focus is on privacy, transparency, and real engagement instead of clicks and outrage.

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[–] 12 points 9 months ago (1 child)

The whole project just seems kinda pointless to me as a fedizen. Canadian fediverse instances already exceed the vision of gander. The only principle differentiating this thing from the rest of corporate social media is the maple-flavoured nationalism.

I suppose it's good that they dodged a couple of VC bullets, but, like, why do they need that much funding to spin up a fork of bluesky, y'know?

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago*

    I find all new social media that’s built to escape Twitter, Meta etc to be pointless unless it’s Fedi. It’ll all turn to shit (see BlueSky etc) like the others did. I mean as soon as algorithm meets money making (ads) it’s over. Let alone when somebody owns it who is a fascist or(and) tech bro/billionaire. Repeating the same thing won’t make a difference.

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