CounterSocial Life-Support
$271,695.76
Raised
4082
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 Wall1222
Janet
Awoo! #BoycottBlackFriday
Sea Anemone | $300
Happy Birthday CoSo. Thank you JΞSŦΞR ✪ ΔCŦUΔL!
Wuzza Diva
Mush
Happy Birthday CoSo and thank you J for this island of humanity in a sea of insanity.
Stuey | $30
Cosomarketplace payment. Thank you Sarah and Happy Anniversary Jester.
Gramdma2011 West | $30
Happy Early 3rd Birthday! Thank you Sir!🌹🍾 👵🏽
Chippy Suavé | $150
Just because I love this place and all of you.
Anonymarsh | $460
it's funny cuz it's true also... #CoSoRocks
Invader Gzim | $46
Amarand | $46
Woot!
Sea Anemone | $46
Altamaha
Great idea from leBrak! Thanks J for keeping us sane and providing a safe space. 46 in honor of Pres Biden
Anonymous | $46
Roxanne | $50
This has been a safe haven during this election cycle. Thank you.
Altamaha | $25
In honor of distinguished Cat of CoSo, Rascal. He brought so much joy. Much love to Fiikus Goddess. ❤️
Amarand | $30
In honor of dvader1 donation of Cisco equipment to Monkey for his CCNA.
99 | $50
I gladly donate to CoSo <3
Anony Marsh | $100
cuz won (yes won) hunnit PAHCENT YO!!!
TheAbbott | $25
Altamaha | $100
Happy 3rd Birthday, Nauts! Thank you, J, for creating this safe haven.
Matthew Hintzen | $100
CoSo got me thru the Election cycle FUCK TRUMP
Jordicus | $50
\m/
Anonymous | $659
happy 3rd CoSoVersary (a lil early)
Matt Bonser | $200
J Stewart | $100
COSO FTW - LIVE LONG & PROSPER
M in | $250
#CoSoLove #ThankyouJester
Jen Roy | $25
Happy Birthday CoSo!
Mark | $100
Thank you for the community that grew around this project
Sheree | $100
Happy 3rd Birthday to the best place in cyberspace! Our host with the most & #CoSoFamily keep making the best better!
Altamaha
Happy 3rd everyone and thanks J for the sandbox 🌻