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
Frank Hunter | $25
FatherMal | $50
Thanks brother!
Jennifer | $25
25 for the 25th
Chippy Suavé | $25
This is made on behalf of an anonymous person who cannot financially contribute, but who also loves CoSo. $25 for 25th amendment.
Chippy Suavé | $25
Thanks to J for the safest and sanest place on the internet. $25 today for the 25th amendment.
Natalie | $25
25 for the 25th
MsKau | $25
I cannot be more grateful for this secure and friendly forum.
Anonymous | $25
Fuck Donald Trump. $25 for 25th Amendment.
Joan | $25
Thank you for this wonderful and sane site and safe haven. Your work is greatly appreciated Jester.
Anonymous | $10
I don’t have much to give, but at a time like this, I feel a need to contribute something, to help sustain this wonderful place
Altamaha | $25
Thanks J, for today and every day.
Anonymous | $100
Happy New Year!
alan | $12.34
alan | $12.34
one two 3 4
Museek | $333
I just wanted to say thanks. CoSo is my happy place on the internet.
Merlin | $105
That spells iOS in $$$
Dreaming Dragon | $10
A small thanks for the Android app❤️🌹
Dreaming | $20
My CoSo Challenge contribution🤺 $5 from me + $5 each for any 3 unable to🎁
alan | $12.34
Sarah
Late to the anniversary party, but I brought a gift! Thank you so much J <3
Carrie | $100
Just a little something to help. Thanks J!
Gramdma👵🏾 | $10
A lil maintenance $ Thank You J
Sea Anemone | $25
More beer 🍺 money for J
Altamaha
Beer 🍺 money for J
Ninety Nine | $50
Elf help $ for J 😁
M in | $120
#CoSoLove #ThankYouJester Holiday hardware elf-help :) Keep on keeping on
Altamaha | $50
A-cuz I love y’all. Thanks, J! 🦖🦖🦖
Maggie | $100
Thank you, J, for all that you do!!
CTR | $100
Happy 3rd....many more to come
Grandma | $10
Because I did a poll & believe in fair polls