CounterSocial Life-Support

$253,897.55

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 Wall1149

Dave | $50

New to CoSo, but have already figured out the ratio and am acting accordingly. Keep up the good work.

Mary

Very interested in having a viable alternative to Twitter. Thanks.

J. Thomas Son | $20

Happy to find this refuge. It's definitely worth something to me. I want to support it when I can.

Patty Hoyt

Appreciate all y'all are doing to keep up with demand.

R BB B | $37

Barbara | $50

Thanks for being here!

Catherine | $50

NZ Nom Review and a Growler for J <3

Autumn | $25

For all that you do! Thanks for keeping the lights on. #EliteBeer

Altamaha | $25

It’s not much, J, but it will get you a beer and some beenie weenies 😘🍻

Jacquelyne | $500

Jester…Thank you for Always being a Light 🔥

Melinda | $17

#HBDCoSo #SendCoSoBDMoney

Ute | $10

this is my second day on CoSo I am a Twitter refugee and so far I am relaxed and happy here

Anonymous | $10

Grateful to be posting and following in a world that values decency. Many thanks to the creator.

Anonymous | $25

I'm loving it @knomia

marianne | $250

here's a BOOtiful surprise for Jester on Halloween!

Amarand | $50

A haiku for J // Start November with a Bang… // Help keep CoSo strong! - o7

Moody Blue | $10

Thank you for crushing the attack earlier with barely any disruption. I appreciate your hard work to provide a safe and comfortable social media site where there is a true sense of community. If I could I would donate more!

Sea Anemone | $5

#BuyJesterABeer - for squashing the threat!

Anonymous | $10

Chuck | $6

I'm Pro and have been here 6 months, but I'll join the #3DollarDrive to help offset this new influx. For @CommonSenseGent and a friend. Every little bit helps!

Faay | $20

#BuyJesterABeer #EliteBeer Paying it forward

Z. B. McFate | $50

Joan Duran | $50

Hopefully this small amount helps with the growing pains that will be coming. We love you J, thank you for all you do for us.

JanNAUT | $13.37

#BuyJesterABeer #EliteBeer

Sea Anemone | $5

#BuyJesterABeer

Nikki | $5

Anony Marsh | $500

stuey playyyyyyyed guitarrrrrrrrr... 😜 🕷️👽

Anonymous | $100

I couldn't stand the suspense, being so close to 100%! LOL...

NorthernBassist | $50

Anonymous | $111

In memory of Skylar Wolf.