CounterSocial Life-Support

$258,602.50

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 Wall1176

Anonymous | $100

Thank you for social media that feels social again. Always informative. Always friendly. You've built a great place here and deserve more than I can give.

Cara | $25

Thank you Render for your time and hard work. Thanks J for everything.

Alan | $12.34

522? more like 1 2 3 4

John Bowdre | $100

Big thanks to Render for keeping us informed, and to J for giving us a home.

Anonymous

Anonymous | $50

A thanks to J for a place to allow Render to keep us in the know. Also a thanks to Phase to keep Render fed and healthy. And a thanks to Doberscotia for keeping Render sane.

Father Mal | $200

From '@Fathermal, thanks to this place and especially you J and @Renderpedia for making it my go-to for info in this tough time. You've helped me help friends still in country in Ukr navigate around some tough situations, and be aware of what's coming. I'm grateful beyond measure.

Laura Mozurkewich | $100

Givin' a shout out to Render, J and the rest of you beautiful 'Nauts. ~ Laura {LadyZurk} Mozurkewich

Kel | $100

For Render's expertise in a place that cannot be trolled by foreign influence operators. We have something really special here!

Altamaha | $50

CoSo love 🌻 to J & Ren and alla y’all nauts

Anonymous | $50

Additional donation for Render's updates and J's work.

Anonymous | $100

Thank you @Render

Anonymous | $100

Thank you for being here.

Jan NAUT

enjoy keeping up with world news via Counter Social's global conflict expert

Evelyn Lees | $100

For Render, thank you!

Anony Marsh | $200

for J: for providing a troll free and disinfo free space for folks on the net for Ren: for providing quality info in a time when that's in short supply...and desperately needed for all nauts: for bein the best folks on the net

Anonymous | $50

For Render and J. Thanks for all you do.

Anonymous | $100

In gratitude for the endless amount of knowledge Render shares, re Ukraine & all else. (Nanawithsoul)

Envis10n | $20

For J, Render, and all the folks that make CoSo a wonderful platform.

Anonymous | $50

Thanks to J and Render. #RussianWarshipGFY

Eva-Marie | $100

John | $10

Thanks to COSO and especially @Render for great Ukraine coverage!

Frank | $10

Thanks for all you're doing! And thanks to @render for being awesome!!

Roze | $25

Thanks for all the hard work, Render!

Asha Jane | $30

For CoSo, acknowledging @render & coverage of Ukraine.

Anonymous | $50

D D | $100

J and Render appreciation

Lisa | $100

Thank you for your updates, Render!

Merlin | $100

Thank you Ren and J. A donation in Ren’s name, and for the good of CoSo

Stacey | $200

donation credit goes to Render's post. Thanks to all of you for all you share and give. from: Tim&Stace