Taking a Gander at Another Social Media Site
At the beginning of this year, I signed up to be an early adopter of a new Canadian-based social-media platform, Gander . Joining was by invitation only but you could ask to be invited: I did and I was. I learned about it through DW and a friend of ours in the midst of rejecting almost everything American. But as we discussed it, I had questions: Would only Canadians be invited to join the platform? How many people would there be on this platform? Would anyone that I already follow on other sites join? Would I now be managing two social-media sites? Would Gander be worth my time? As much as I liked the idea of a Canadian platform, I didn't know if I'd be interested in actually being on it, myself. I already have a Bluesky account that I like very much. I moved from Twitter to Mastodon, then to Threads, and finally landed on Bluesky. It wasn't easy moving around. I had made so many friends and connections on Twitter that it was hard to leave. I told my p...
