CounterSocial Life-Support
$258,862.50
Raised
3995
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 Wall1178
Altamaha | $20
Thank you for the wand, Museek!!!
Catherine | $100
#fairies rule auction dress n wand
Jennifer | $30
For J AND all of you that make CoSo a very awesome place to be.
MissnWV MissnWV | $300
Glad to help. CoSo is a great place to be!
Mrs. Mess | $100
Thank you Museek!
Anonymous | $100
Wanna thank me for this donation? Make one yourself and help the cause! @DisasterOracle
Sal | $250
Altamaha | $50
For the CoSo Love ❤️
Kel | $100
A secure social media experience that doesn't exploit me? Yeah, that's definitely a thing worth funding. Thank you for all you do!
Holly | $300
Grateful for all you do!
D D | $50
Troll spatting appreciation
Chippy Suavé | $50
Hatred has no place here. Peace, love, and understanding always. Thank you J.
Min | $50
#CoSoLove #trollsplat
Daniel | $50
Thank you for nuking trolls
Autumn | $70
Thank you CoSo fam!
Autumn | $40
Barrett Nah | $100
Thanks for the platform and the opportunity to meet cool people like Stuey that are willing to donate!
Anonymous
just to express my appreciation for giving us a non-FB place to support each other.
Tinjaw
#FuckbookFundraiserForCoSo
Bryan | $500
You may not like me much but I do love you and that giant heart of yours, please keep going and build the kids of tomorrow a better future. Grandpa Internet over here is too old and run down to build another social network. Thank you brother.. -- killabit
Cher | $420
Pledge for boosted post. You rock 💜
Cara | $50
Anonymous | $25
Anonymous | $100
Keep on Truckin'...
Mike Smith | $85
50% of proceeds from September music and merch!
Peter Wine | $200
Just feeding the addiction here. :) - D/O
Altamaha | $25
Kickin it up a notch, y’all 🌶
Corlin | $1,000
Somebody has to help feed the servers !
Tinjaw | $50
All I can afford, and CoSo is priceless.
Ninety Nine | $25
99 just got a sticker!!