CounterSocial Life-Support
$270,585.76
Raised
4079
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 Wall1220
Mush | $44.44
Happy 4th birthday CoSo and thank you J for all the hard work you do making CoSo so amazing!
Cara | $44.44
Happy 4th Birthday CoSo!! 🥳
Anthony | $25
Happy birthday CoSo / @th3j35t3r :-)
Amarand | $44.44
Woot! Four More Years!
donald haas | $50
In honor of Mountain Man who is more handsome than Kurt.
Purple | $50
Because Kurt cheats at polls :-)
Mush | $25
For download of Stuey's song
Holly McAbee | $25
Stuey’s song for CoSo
Susan Taylor | $240
#songforcoso
Anonymous | $50
Waiting to hear & see Stuey perform 👍🏼
Anonymous | $50
Stuey's #SongForCoSo
Mush | $50
Stuey's #SongForCoSo
Amarand | $50
SongForCoSo - Anniversary Edition!
Altamaha
Happy 4th Birthday you beautiful ppl. Donation for Stuey’s song 🎶
Alan | $12.34
For Stuey - what do you call a cow with two legs?
Sea Anemone | $100
I'd say 40+ hours jigging the code while dreaming of becoming a goat herder deserves a show of appreciation. I too wish I had a goat.
M | $50
Migration gratitude #CoSoLove
Marsha | $25
In honor of a job well done!
jerry | $30
Sal | $12
For my Malka Morse code bracelet - thanks Mush! Xxx
RACHEL Smith
Kenneth Madden
Mush | $300
What the Mush profits October 2021, Thank you to everyone who placed orders!
J Cole | $200
More for #BoopforBucks !
Northern Bassist | $250
#BoopforBucks pledge from Northernbassist, with love and gratitude to all CoSonauts
Mush | $300
Boops for Bucks! <3
Anonymous | $250
Adding to Min's #BoopforBucks because we're too close to fail now! Love CoSo! Jodie/nanawithsoul
Min | $500
#BoopforBucks #CoSoLove #Boop Thank you, you AMAZING people <3
Anonymous | $100
Secret BoopsForBucks Bump
Invader Gzim | $50
For the Boops...