CounterSocial Life-Support

$253,777.55

Raised

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

Donor Wall1149

Jill | $10

Damien Rigden | $100

This is from the sale of the one and only golden #cosodisk1!

JG T | $2,000

Thanks for the new COSOCall events!

Ken Donnelly | $50

Thanks for providing this awesome platform!

Doug Alder | $20

Worth every penny, thanks J

greenlady | $25

Mr JESTER♥- - -THANK And BLESS U♥

Autumn Eden-Goodman | $500

With love from @autumn @amarand and @monkey ❤️❤️❤️

M | $150

#CoSoLove

Anonymous | $10

Anonymous

First time donor and thankful for the existence of Counter Social , the best platform in the whole world.

Anonymous | $25

In honor of a Tacitus Tree

Adrien | $20

Equal amounts, and all that jazz.

Average Citizen | $25

A thank you for the zine, Abzurd, and also to J for creating a space where I can vent about life & politics.

Cathy Rudolph | $80

COSOFundraiser, the Harris-Walz friendship brace!lets. Thanks to BlueStateBabe for the artistry. CounterSocial rules!

Greenlady | $25

Hello Mr. JESTER Thank U 4 this Site; CoSoNaut FAM♥ Than U 4 Your Kindness

Anonymous | $200

Thanks for you time, experience and effort to form a community of generosity!

Marilyn | $10

Anonymous | $100

A little to help keep the lights on, and to ease J's burden. (NanaWithSoul)

greenlady | $25

Hello Mr JESTER💖 THANK U 4 This Wonderful Site. #CoSoNautFAM♥ Thank U 4 Your KINDNESS♥- --BLESSINGS♥

CJ | $10

I can't afford to go Pro or to donate often but want to support CoSo and also projects like the #Zine

code Whisperer | $10

In appreciation of the CoSo ZINE (abZurd)

J G Schaeffer | $1,200

Donation to CoSo in support of the production costs of the 1st edition, 1st volume, 1st printing of CoSo’s abZurd_Zine

Lindan Johnson | $10

this is for a copy of the COSO ZINE to be mailed to me (already sent address)

Melissa Fieck | $50

❤️

LadyZurk | $170

Supporting the Community 'Zine.

Disk4mat | $10

#Abzurd donation Thank you!

Ryan Huber | $100

This is a great shirt @MrGoat!

greenlady | $25

Dear Mr. Jester♥ Thank U 4 this Wonderful Site. CoSoNaut Fam♥ Thank U 4 Your Friendship/Support.♥

M | $100

Thank you Dr. LeBrak!! Excited to have a copy of your book <3 #CoSoLove

Ryan Huber | $120

Thanks, CoSo!