CounterSocial Life-Support

$253,918.10

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

Donor Wall1150

Cathy

Went Pro but here's more help. My eyes would appreciate a "light" option for the color scheme.

Anonymous | $50

Gone, not forgotten. <3 to the fam XoX shiloh

Amy | $10

Hurrah for the time stamps returning! Love what you have done with the place!!

Constance

Hope it's helpful, guys!

Heather Young-Leslie | $25

Newbie here (at least new since I stopped trying Mastodon ages ago). I'm testing the waters, liking what I see so far, but not ready to go pro yet (too much community in other places). Hoping the handheld app keeps growing, and that every new Musk's Bird refugee matches my donation to buy you lunch for all the great work you've done here.

kathy | $100

thank you for creating an alternate, safe(er) space. I'll go for Pro's when it's more worked out

beanc beanc | $100

I know the past week or so has been crazy, but we appreciate all you do! Hope you use some of this to buy you a drink as a thank you.

Anonymous

Love the concept, the interface may take some adjustment on my part. That comes with regular use, right?

CHERYL | $25

Another $25, still waiting on Pro to work out.

Mike McDonald | $100

@Hootenanny

Min | $100

Thank you, J! #CoSoLove

Chippy | $50

Just a little something to help with all the recent upgrades. Thank you J, for all the hard work you do to give us an oasis.

Elizabeth | $100

Thank you! ❤️🌻 Groovyeli

H3adPh0n3 | $100

Awesome work to upgrade CoSo this week!

Anonymous

cat sez dog did it | $50

Thanks for all you do. You da best J.

Jennifer | $100

With ❤️ From JenSemDem

CHERYL | $25

Thanks for CoSo, @th3j35t3r. Good--no, GREAT job. Dedication is appreciated. You deserve this! (More to come, btw.)

Mark Mazurkiewicz | $100

Thanks for all your work, this is a great place

Matthew Williams | $25

Anonymous | $10

Thx so much for working so diligently to get the site back up! @Vixey

Anonymous

My only donation is just like a drop in the ocean but all together we can do a lot for CS

Patti | $200

Hi J, I haven’t been on social media for a while, but have been reading what you have done with CoSo since I first signed up when you launched. I’m looking forward to getting back on CoSo(probably need to sign up like a new user as I haven’t logged in for a long time) I am really excited about the VR section. Got my quest and have been looking forward to cancelling my FB account as I no longer need the acct to have fun. Look forward to seeing all the great things you and your team created. All the best Patti

kaehlys | $10

Cheers J. Thanks for making and keeping CoSo awesome.

Jon | $18

Going Pro, but this is a small token of appreciation for the Herculean efforts of Jester to maintain and build out the infrastructure.

amy | $10

spending my lunch money on COSO today.

XSGeek | $10

Amarand | $20

Planting rows of seeds // Widening the river banks // Summer's on its way...

Tina | $100

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

Anonymous | $20