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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Tina

donated

$100

Thank you Jester for your hard work! Especially these last few days! We appreciate you!

SD

Anonymous

donated

$20

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Invader

donated

$50

Thanks, J... For the past 72 hours of extreme hell you've put yourself through... Let's get this month over 100%

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Stuey

donated

$5

It's not as much as I'd like but here's a little something to say thanks.

A

Altamaha

donated

$25

Budget tight right now but I know this update cost ya, J ❤️ Thanks so much

GK

Anonymous

donated

$100

It’s sooooo good to be home! Thank you, J - your hard work and dedication is everything. (Nanawithsoul)

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DisasterOracle

donated

$100

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Wendy

donated

$50

Thank you for all your work!

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Thomas

donated

$100

Thank you for all the hard work and the new home.

AM

Anony Marsh

donated

$500

CoSo is BAAAAAAAAAACK!!!!!!!!

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Emily Lokken

donated

$10

Thank you th3j35t3r!

CR

Anonymous

donated

$50

Thank you for taking care of us Jay. Now, go take care of you a bit.

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Daniel

donated

$100

Grateful for th3j35t3r's hard work to upgrade CoSo to handle even more friends! Thank you.

J

JanNAUT

donated

$30

Thank you for the upgrade. Appreciate the hard work making this a larger place for more visitors.

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Raven

donated

$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. 😊

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Corlin

donated

$1,000

Just trying to get ahead of the flood of donations. A Big o7 to J for all the hard work !

J

J-me

donated

$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.

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Marianne

donated

$65

J

Jennifer

donated

$10

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Kathryn

donated

$10

Thank you, J! I wish I could give more to help with upgrades!! XO

IC

Invalid Character

donated

$50

Thanks, J. Know your hard work is appreciated.

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Amarand

donated

$20

CoSo Upgrading // New 420 Emoji // Usher in the Spring

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Patricia

donated

$20

I am on fixed income, but this is a worthy cause. Well done.

AE

Autumn Eden-Goodman

donated

$5

It’s not much but a lot of a little is still a lot! Thank you for all that you do J!

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All Is

donated

$100

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Mike

donated

$50

50% of proceeds from the ole' Michael Lee Smith music project

TS

Anonymous

donated

$10

I will give as much as I can when I can.

CH

C. Ellen Hogan

donated

$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!

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Chad

donated

$100

Good luck and thank you!

TD

T D

donated

$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