CounterSocial Life-Support

$258,582.50

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

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Roberta Munroe | $10

Sea Anemone | $250

Thank you Jester - I just know you are thriving with all this activity. It's all good.

Altamaha | $20

Let’s keep the hamsters fed, y’all!

Francie | $50

Ramp up for the Twittexit!

Anonymous | $50

Weed emoji! 👍 (nanawithsoul)

Blues Baby | $5

Cannabis emoji. Thank you, J.

Anonymous

sorry I can't do more -- yet....

Anonymous

Thank you for a safe, entertaining, engaging and educational (!) platform, created for all the right reasons. Dream on.

Annette H | $20

Will support as often as I can :-)

Charlotte | $500

CoSo is the only social media site I trust; many thx to J & his talented team of posters

Chippy Suavé | $50

CoSo is like the friend you didn't know you needed.

Cara | $50

Because @killagator 😁

Laura Mozurkewich | $100

Bad words and BACON!!

Altamaha | $25

I love bacon, what can I say 🥓

Min | $150

Thank you for keeping our data safe. Much gratitude for all that this community provides and all of the work it takes to maintain it. <3 #CoSoLove

Drew Schaefer | $10

I'm 92% unemployed, but y'all do good work

Anonymous | $50

Thanks for the experience

Elizabeth Hepola Roth | $100

Thank you J & Render - GroovyEli

Anonymous | $150

Matching @99reasons4truth @shiloh @LadyZurk #CosoFundit (Nanawithsoul)

Ninety Nine | $50

Bacon Poll #CoSoFundit

Frank | $25

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

Asha Jane

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

Jim | $25

Min | $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

Daniel | $5

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

Kristy | $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.

Sea Anemone | $5

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

Matt B | $100

Lost a bet with McFate

Anonymous | $50

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