CounterSocial Life-Support

$258,547.50

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

Anonymous | $150

As promised, $10 for every “favorite” of this morning’s toot!

Anonymous | $250

Anonymous cookie bid!!!!!! No cookies for Kurt!

Dana | $175

@vanitas thanks J, Min and all who made the CoSo October mug auction happen

Feathered Friend | $150

Domino Auction ! CoSo is wonderful, so glad I found you all

Anonymous | $250

My match for the CoSo mug winner, bidding hilarity & cookie shenanigans. (Nanawithsoul)

pendrag | $250

Matching Rogue Cookie Auction Winner #CoSoAuctions

Laurel Brooks | $50

It’s the kindness for me. CoSo is a place where people show their best selves. Love it.

M | $120

#CoSoLove #gratitude Stickers <3 I love CoSo for all that it offers and all that it represents

GrandmaJ | $50

Thank you for this wonderful, safe neighborhood. I have met so many great people here.

Anonymous | $15

3 Gippy stickers!

Anonymous | $115

Fb and the bird app had me constantly looking over my shoulder for the next attack. With CoSo lacking trolls, bots, and fake news, I can relax more. And... 3 stickers! Thx ~ Toni

Lee

I prefer to pay instead of be sold.

Fire | $10

Lovely Gippy Sticker project! CoSo has been a "good thing" and is taking more and more of my morning coffee time. Great to share a cuppa with you all!

Chuck | $111

The one who inspired this understands. Thanks CoSo for providing the unexpected portal.

David Celis | $5

I believe this is a great project, I want to see it grow.

Cara | $20

I love CoSo because...Gippy!! Obviously the super amazing people too. ;-)

Faay 1557 | $20

I love CoSo because It's real here. J had a vision and made it come true.

Melinda Kovacs | $20

I would love a sticker. But whether I get one or not, #CoSoishome so here is some money. I am an authenticity junkie so this place is the perfect fit

anna mousse | $20

he says "tell us why you love this place". rrrrr, well it's different and better and don't ask me to elaborate.

Thomas | $5

I love CoSo because it gives me a place to talk about the things I feel inside and not be ridiculed over them... the community is super loving and awesome.

Jenny Gibbons | $20

I would like one sticker. I love CoSo because I feel safe here. I haven't felt this good about an online place since the days of the Arpanet.

R3dH00d | $10

Nice people who share what they know and who listen when they don't know.

Amarand | $25

CoSo: awesome people, self-curated content!

Ever | $10

I love CoSo so much I'm going to need a sticker to show it.

Anonymous | $50

For Kel’s stickers. I love CoSo because of the amazing community spirit - for one another & for J, who gave us this great home. (Nanawithsoul)

Jocelyn Traher | $10

Let's do this!

Anony Marsh | $1,310

for playing both sides of the Movie Night auction...all for the cause!

C. M. Skiera | $15

For Oct 2022 e-book sale proceeds.

Alan | $10

#oceanofdroos

Janet | $100

For the movie Silence of the Lambs 👺 Go CoSo!! Go @MovieNights!!!!