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A Canadian Social Network? Don’t Roll Your Eyes Yet | The Walrus

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B EN WALDMAN CALLS it the “goose chase”: a friendly peer-pressure campaign to coax celebrities, public figures, and cultural organizations onto Gander, the Canadian-made social media platform that the chief executive officer and his co-founders dreamed up over a year ago. The real goose chase, however, might be the project itself—an audacious, if quixotic, attempt to create a homegrown network to preserve some measure of sovereignty over our online conversations. Can it actually work? I reached Waldman by Zoom to talk about what he’s trying to build and why. He had just completed a small media blitz following Gander’s launch on Canada Day. Decode the stories behind the headlines with The Walrus newsletter. Sign up for The Walrus newsletter and get trusted Canadian journalism straight in your inbox. If I joined the 28,000 people already on Gander, what could I actually do? You can post text—currently up to 300 characters—along with images, galleries, and video. We follow many of the sam

Supplied B en Waldman calls it the “goose chase”: a friendly peer-pressure campaign to coax celebrities, public figures, and cultural organizations onto Gander , the Canadian-made social media platform that the chief executive officer and his co-founders dreamed up over a year ago. The real goose chase, however, might be the project itself—an audacious, if quixotic, attempt to create a homegrown network to preserve some measure of sovereignty over our online conversations. Can it actually work? I reached Waldman by Zoom to talk about what he’s trying to build and why. He had just completed a s

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