CounterSocial Life-Support

$270,562.76

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 Wall1220

C R | $25

I wish it could be more, but in the spirit of "every little bit helps" here's something for now to get this wonderful CoSo ship sailing a little closer towards the goal. ~Chilly :^)oOO

Dana | $20

thanks for all your hard work!

Amarand | $50

CoSo Stuey Song!

Tad Ishihara | $50

Sailed in to contribute in honor of Capt. JΞSŦΞR ✪ ΔCŦUΔL. Here are a few doubloons from Capt. Whiskers' chest to keep this mighty ship afloat. Arrrrrggggg, mateys!

M | $100

#CoSoLove

Diane | $100

Thanking every one for keeping this great forum.

Anonymous | $100

Because CoSo is simply the best. (Nanawithsoul)

Kel Krehbiel | $100

No peer pressure was involved in the making of this donation.

Sea Anemone | $100

CoSo continues to be innovative and fun. Thank you J.

DD | $100

#CoSoPact Still here and feeling better.

Daniel | $100

Thank you for the friendly space, J!

Autumn Eden-Goodman

Grateful for this community that helps keep me sane. Love you #CoSoFam

Kel | $50

Incredibly thankful for this place. Thanks J!

Tadashi Ishihara

Happy 4th CoSo! Thank you for providing me with a great experience.

Kristy Hoover | $200

Happy Birthday Pappy! 🥳 Blessings on you 💛

Koko

Happy Birthday

Mick Carty | $30

Worth this just to see attackers sent off to pester Mossad 😂

Jack Carlson | $10

I can't do much, being on SS, but I will do what I can. Join me?

lee | $200

thanks J

Min | $100

#gratitude #cosolove

Cathy Rudolph | $20

Tim Dolan | $120

Here's another drop in the ocean. 12 mo at $10/mo in one easy payment of $120. Thanks for all you do.

Anonymous

Different is good ... onward and upward.

Anonymous | $100

A little drop in the bucket to help while J is “otherwise engaged”. (Nanawithsoul)

Anonymous | $99

Happy happy

Marianne Obrien | $50

$50 in honor of the wee doglettes (Rex) fifth month birthday!

Louise Mensch | $100

Hey, J. You up?

GrandmaJ | $50

Thanks for this awesome site, J. It rocks and so do you. GrandmaJ

Anonymous

Yo!!! Let keep this beautiful place going

Mick Carty | $50

This is a truly “social” media platform, where posts are seen, comments replied to, and friends made. I decided to go pro after just two days, and will happily donate little extras when I can. Please help this great project out.