CounterSocial Life-Support
$270,562.76
Raised
4077
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
Altamaha | $25
Budget tight right now but I know this update cost ya, J ❤️ Thanks so much
Anonymous | $100
It’s sooooo good to be home! Thank you, J - your hard work and dedication is everything. (Nanawithsoul)
DisasterOracle | $100
Wendy | $50
Thank you for all your work!
Thomas | $100
Thank you for all the hard work and the new home.
Anony Marsh | $500
CoSo is BAAAAAAAAAACK!!!!!!!!
Emily Lokken | $10
Thank you th3j35t3r!
Anonymous | $50
Thank you for taking care of us Jay. Now, go take care of you a bit.
Daniel | $100
Grateful for th3j35t3r's hard work to upgrade CoSo to handle even more friends! Thank you.
JanNAUT | $30
Thank you for the upgrade. Appreciate the hard work making this a larger place for more visitors.
Raven | $25
i plan to get the Pro account when you are up and running again. i know it's not much but will be consistent. 😊
Corlin | $1,000
Just trying to get ahead of the flood of donations. A Big o7 to J for all the hard work !
J-me | $500
I can't stop the hate from bird site users, but I can help support and invest in a community already proven to be better in every way.
Marianne | $65
Jennifer | $10
Kathryn | $10
Thank you, J! I wish I could give more to help with upgrades!! XO
Invalid Character | $50
Thanks, J. Know your hard work is appreciated.
Amarand | $20
CoSo Upgrading // New 420 Emoji // Usher in the Spring
Patricia | $20
I am on fixed income, but this is a worthy cause. Well done.
Autumn Eden-Goodman | $5
It’s not much but a lot of a little is still a lot! Thank you for all that you do J!
All Is | $100
Mike | $50
50% of proceeds from the ole' Michael Lee Smith music project
Anonymous | $10
I will give as much as I can when I can.
C. Ellen Hogan | $18
I'm a broke grad student atm, but will plan to give more in the future. For now, I offer $18 (eighteen means life/luck in Hebrew) in gratitude for a place to connect and share information that is free of megalomaniac influence. Thank you for providing such a space!
Chad | $100
Good luck and thank you!
T D | $25
Here's a boost to help defray the growing pains we're having. It's not $44b, but it's a start. Thanks J
Anonymous
P Turner | $5
Anonymous | $5
Jacqueline Daniels