CounterSocial Life-Support
$359,204.11
Raised
5712
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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Anonymous
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P Turner
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Anonymous
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$5
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Jacqueline Daniels
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David
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$10
Keep up the good work. Will do what I can.
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Merlin
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$50
Doing what I can for CoSo today
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Laur
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$10
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Anonymous
Putting my money where my mouth is. CoSo is for the children. (@popuman)
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Anne
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$50
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alison
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Roberta Munroe
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$10
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Sea Anemone
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$250
Thank you Jester - I just know you are thriving with all this activity. It's all good.
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Altamaha
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$20
Let’s keep the hamsters fed, y’all!
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Francie
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$50
Ramp up for the Twittexit!
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Anonymous
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$50
Weed emoji! 👍 (nanawithsoul)
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Blues Baby
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$5
Cannabis emoji. Thank you, J.
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Anonymous
sorry I can't do more -- yet....
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Anonymous
Thank you for a safe, entertaining, engaging and educational (!) platform, created for all the right reasons. Dream on.
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Annette H
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$20
Will support as often as I can :-)
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Charlotte
donated
$500
CoSo is the only social media site I trust; many thx to J & his talented team of posters
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Chippy Suavé
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$50
CoSo is like the friend you didn't know you needed.
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Cara
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$50
Because @killagator 😁
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Laura Mozurkewich
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$100
Bad words and BACON!!
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Altamaha
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$25
I love bacon, what can I say 🥓
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Min
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$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
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Drew Schaefer
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$10
I'm 92% unemployed, but y'all do good work
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Anonymous
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$50
Thanks for the experience
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Elizabeth Hepola Roth
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$100
Thank you J & Render - GroovyEli
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Anonymous
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$150
Matching @99reasons4truth @shiloh @LadyZurk #CosoFundit (Nanawithsoul)
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Ninety Nine
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$50
Bacon Poll #CoSoFundit