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

Tyghe | $20

Altamaha | $50

Let’s keep the lights on! Thanks, J!

Autumn | $11.11

Thank you for your service ❤️

Chuck | $80

Rounding off my lucky number of entries for Autumn's awesome shawl raffle! This is the next best thing to winning $2B in the Powerball (which I didn't, lol). (@CommonSenseGent)

Julien | $25

Jen | $50

It's an amazing platform and I love how *actually* social it is. Not a popularity contest. A community. Happy to support the work.

Diva | $10/M

Z McFate | $50

"How that elephant got into my pajamas, I'll never know!"

M | $100

#CoSolove #gratitude

Anonymous | $10

Thank you for accepting Twitter refugees. I think I am going to like CoSo more than Twitter.

Blues Baby | $20

#Stitch by Numbers. Yay @Autumn!

Michael | $5

LOVE the platform, wish this donation could be x1000 more, keep up the good work!

Chuck | $85

Entries for Autumn's awesome shawl raffle! (@CommonSenseGent)

Elaine | $1,000

I wish I could do more, even though I know that this helps J and CoSo a great deal. I just mean more spiritually or psychological or otherwise to give J support and show the deep thanks I have for all his work in creating such an epic space for all of us. ♥ It's been hell lately and I'm sure there will be more hell to come over time. Just thanks and please take care of yourself, J.

Jenny Holmes | $10

Jon | $10

Congrats! from yer pal Elon

Jason | $40

amy sutryn

@Queen of Yarnia I'll take a few of those raffle tickets!

Wanda Boyer | $100

Keep up the great work!! It’s only been a couple of days, and yet I already am so impressed by CoSo; I feel like there’s such genuine, caring folk that are flocking (lol) to your platform.

Ian

Thank you for all your hard work!

Anonymous

Thank you for keeping us safe.

Drew Schaefer | $22

Returning to gainful employment, makes me giddy.

TSK | $10

Moody Blue | $20

Cheers Good Captain, thank you for all you do.

Anonymous | $100

20 tickets for Autumn’s shawl contest! (Nanawithsoul)

Novels | $25

Autumn’s raffle

Asha Jane

For the raffle founded by @Autumn Go CoSo!

Lisa Gamble | $25

This place is amazing!! Thank you for all your hard work! You Rock 💙

Sherry Davis | $25

Mike