CounterSocial Life-Support
$379,817.46
Raised
6165
Donations
$500,000
Goal
CounterSocial is five years old and we are approaching 160,000 users. We have created a social media platform that counters trolls, bots, and nefarious or fake accounts and fake news to give people a great experience enjoying all the benefits of a casual, happy way to be social online without harassment. All with baked-in privacy, identity breach alerts, LIVE streaming TV, before-its-news incident alerts, secure file-sharing, NO ADS and more!
This has been achieved primarily with the money, time and expertise of ONE person, for over five years single-handedly. Our new optional subscription Pro accounts service is picking up, but subscriptions at this point are not nearly enough to offset the costs.
Creating and maintaining a social media platform and network isn’t easy and it isn’t cheap. Moral support is great, but the cost of supporting COSO – the cost of servers, bandwidth, disk space, security, backups, development and marketing– isn’t currently met by the subscriptions. Over time we hope pro account subscriptions will make CoSo self-sustaining, but until then we truly could use some financial support.
We set up this campaign to ensure and secure https://counter.social another 5 years breathing space to develop new features, finally invest in some actual marketing, maintain what we've already built and grow our Pro accounts base to a self-sustaining level.
I've steered away from increasing Pro account subscription costs while all the time adding new features, veered away from monetizing via adding sponsored content or ads, and swerved away from traditional VC investments, to keep our platform as grassroots and uncorruptable as possible - and it's taken a lot of pride-swallowing to put out this call for crowd-sourced help.
With a little generosity and luck this should be the only time we ask for help.
We are building a revolution in responsible social media. Come on in. Congregate. Create. Collaborate. Contribute. Together, we’ve got this.
You can verify this is a legitimate CounterSocial fundraising initiative by visiting:
https://counter.social/donorbox-verification.html
THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT!
Jay
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M
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$100
#gratitude
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CINDY
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$20
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Janie Millard
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$100
thanks for the haven
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Jean Andreasen
CoSo - the best place to be ❤️
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Julie
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$50
In memory of JGSchaeffer's dad. May his memory be a blessing. <3 04/30/2026
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Mike
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$25
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R Q
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$100
👋🤞🖖
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Stuart
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$5/M
I can't justify not adding a little extra each month. It's not a lot but I'll increase it
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M
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$120
Thanks to everyone who played along!! #DoughforDough #CoSoLove
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Eva-Marie Leahey
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$100
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Daniel
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$100
Matching Min's Dough for Dough.
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Laura M Mozurkewich
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$100
Matching Dough for Dough.
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Average Citizen
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$50
Just chipping in, Happy Spring to all!
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John
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$250
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david
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$20
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Julia
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$25
Worth every nickel!
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Corlin
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$100
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Lynn Riordan
donated
$105
Love the platform! I blocked myself but then changed my mind.
Anonymous
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$500
#CoSoLove NanaWithSoul
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David Doyle
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$20
We've got you J! Thank you for this wonderful gift that is Counter Social.
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Nilba Michele Espinosa
Reasons I support CoSo: - My info and preferences are not tracked - My sentiments are not siloed by a manipulative algorithm - There are no fake accounts or trolls here - My data isn't sold - I can keep my identity private
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Catherine Udenberg
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$100
Thanks for a neighborhood
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Charlotte
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$50/M
Paying monthly for 10 folks who may not be able to. CoSo the one social media source I trust
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Sea Anemone
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$100
We came here to speak out loud. Let's help to expand our reach. You tell a friend, and so on, and so on. Let's grow CoSo.
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$250
👋🫰🖖
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ANGELA GUNN
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$100
My mom just spent 90 minutes on the phone with me reading random FB foolishness; just wanted to thank CoSo for being light-years better than such places <3
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M
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$150
#CoSoLove #gratitude
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Melissa
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$100
For the coffers.
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Cynthia Mcwilliams
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$50
Thanks, Jester. As always
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code Whisperer
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$25
Thank you to @R3dH00d for being an RSS tester today, and then generously suggesting that I donate his spiff to CoSo instead of giving it to him.