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

Donor Wall1176

Mike M | $50

Counter social has not bots. Counter social has no ads. It’s like way too enjoyable, really. Love you CoSonauts! - Hootenanny

Anonymous | $70

$70 for my bid on Museek’s auction. Would’ve paid if I’d won, so why not pony up, right?

Alex | $100

DANA | $100

Thanks from @Vanitas for @Museek's awesome skills at beadwork AND CoSo fundraising!

Min | $100

Thank you, J! #CoSoLove

Anonymous | $50

Let's get to 100% every month.

Hootenanny | $50

To J and the badassery that is CoSo 💯

Anonymous | $50

thanks jester , grateful for your abilities and this platform

Anonymous | $25

Sal | $75

To help out and say thanks x

Stuey | $25

In honor of Sam Ryder's Eurovision result.

Jan | $13.37

an e-1337 gratuity for all you do

Anonymous | $25

Because UK got some Eurovision points

Anony Marsh | $569

matching MrsBentoBako #takemymoney #movienights thing...cuz #CoSoRocks

Ed | $100

Susan Taylor | $569

#takemymoney #movienights

Jason | $4

@J_Cee owes me a toot :)

Anonymous | $150

I support CS follows

Ninety Nine | $50

Movie Night follows - Thank you all!!

Julien | $25

Thank you for all your hard work, J. I’m so glad you’re now creating!

Jenell | $100

I'll start here because I still can't get in to the Go Pro page.

Phase | $100

Never gonna let you down...

Phase | $100

Never gonna give you up.

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.