CounterSocial Life-Support

$359,204.11

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

Our donors

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Frank

donated

$25

Not much, but I'll try to do better in the future.

AJ

Asha Jane

In honor of the lovely folks I get to talk to and listen to at CoSo.

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Jim

donated

$25

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Min

donated

$100

With many thanks to Render for his invaluable expertise and to J for this wonderful online community. Thank you for all that you give. #CoSoLove #gratitude

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Daniel

donated

$5

$5 because no amount is too small. Thank you J for everything you do to keep CoSo online.

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Kristy

donated

$150

This is for Ren's time and effort to educate us all during these chaotic times. His knowledge and experience is invaluable.Thank you bro, you are appreciated. 💛 Pappy, I'm always grateful for your time and effort. Blessings on you both.

SA

Sea Anemone

donated

$5

I'll start with $5 because no amount is too small. Thank you J for everything you do to keep CoSo online.

MB

Matt B

donated

$100

Lost a bet with McFate

KR

Anonymous

donated

$50

For Render & the rest of the community. It feels like home.

JW

Anonymous

donated

$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.

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Cara

donated

$25

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

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Alan

donated

$12.34

522? more like 1 2 3 4

JB

John Bowdre

donated

$100

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

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Anonymous

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Anonymous

donated

$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.

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Father Mal

donated

$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.

LM

Laura Mozurkewich

donated

$100

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

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Kel

donated

$100

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

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Altamaha

donated

$50

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

ST

Anonymous

donated

$50

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

MH

Anonymous

donated

$100

Thank you @Render

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Anonymous

donated

$100

Thank you for being here.

JN

Jan NAUT

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

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Evelyn Lees

donated

$100

For Render, thank you!

AM

Anony Marsh

donated

$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

JC

Anonymous

donated

$50

For Render and J. Thanks for all you do.

GK

Anonymous

donated

$100

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

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Envis10n

donated

$20

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

JT

Anonymous

donated

$50

Thanks to J and Render. #RussianWarshipGFY

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Eva-Marie

donated

$100