CounterSocial Life-Support
$270,462.76
Raised
4073
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 Wall1219
Altamaha
In honor of Michael and with love to Cher. ❤️
Altamaha | $50
Happy December and thanks to J for guiding us thru a turbulent month with wit & grace.
Linda
So glad to have a comfortable place to take refuge in and enjoy the conversations without fears of trolls.
Kimberly Teigue | $20
Love CoSo! -BehindGrnEyez @AlternativeFactsareLies and I looovvve Queen of Yarnia's shawls!
Altamaha | $25
For Autumn’s gorgeous shawl raffle!
Blues Baby | $20
Autumn's shawl raffle
Meredith | $20
Happy Thanksgiving
Amarand | $50
🍍Team Pineapple! #PizzaWars🍍
Autumn | $5
🍍 or 🚫🍍 - as long as it’s #pizzawar with you #CoSoFam
M M | $25
#CoSoLove #pizzawar
Koko | $25
Ed Dice | $25
Anonymous | $200
Thanks for creating this place
Sea Anemone | $4.99
To make up for the potential loss of a Pro subscription this month from a SeaLion who likely never had any intention of subscribing. xo
Lynn Riordan | $5
Love you guys!
Blep Bloop | $50
Happy birthday, CoSo!
Feathered Friend | $150
i didn't win the auction but here, take my money!
L Zurk | $200
Asha Jane | $85
Channeling my grandmother to buy CoSo a burger. I love you, CoSo. Happy 5th birthday!!
Anonymous | $20
I'm sorry it's not more.
Jonathan Swainger | $100
Thanks for CoSo
Anonymous | $350
Matching CoSoAuction BDay Bundle - pendrag
Lena | $350
This is my donation for the CoSo birthday auction -- and a way to help keep this site going!
Anonymous | $250
My matching donation for Min's Bday Bundle Auction. (nanawithsoul)
Lisa | $50
A bet is a bet, but the donation would've happened either way. Thank you for all your hard work, J.
Barbara | $50
Looking good so far! Finding my way around. SO glad you are here! Hope this helps Keep the lights on till i get more comfy & make a commitment. Thank you!
Len
It's clear social media is changing and it’s time to support CoSo as we see where this takes us. It is time for the nex gen sites to develop and grow. Thank you for providing us with CoSo…
Joyce Hanson | $50
Thank you for the safe, sane social media site!
Tyghe | $20
Altamaha | $50
Let’s keep the lights on! Thanks, J!