CounterSocial Life-Support
$354,488.74
Raised
5646
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
Our donors
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M
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$200
#CoSoLove Thank you, J!
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Jeff
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$50
Thank you J and helpers for offering this safe space.
DC
Anonymous
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$20
Merry Christmas!
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Altamaha
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$25
CoSo ho ho ho! Merry Christmas 🎄
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Suzanne
donated
$18.18
Doing my bit to keep the roll going!
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Anonymous
donated
$500
Merry Christmas, Happy Holiday's pendrag
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A.W.
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$5.21
Here's my Equifax breach windfall. 🤣
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Anonymous
Thank you for your service to the community. And I am sorry I just found the time to give back a little.
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GreenLady ANON
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$10
Thank you for this site. It literally is a --LIFE-SAVER. BLESS You♥
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amy fb
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$100
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Anonymous
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$50
Amount saved so far on pay to win games.
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JULIA
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$25
Well worth the price of admission!
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Anonymous
donated
$10
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Ian Seckington
donated
$100
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Cathy
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$25
Keep this place humming 😘💕✨️
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Matthew
donated
$11.11
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Merlin
donated
$100
Some #CoSoLove
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Melinda Kovacs
donated
$50
Honoring my friend and her shop at https://www.etsy.com/shop/StrokeSurvivorCrafts?
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John Bennett
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$50
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Altamaha
In honor of Michael and with love to Cher. ❤️
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Altamaha
donated
$50
Happy December and thanks to J for guiding us thru a turbulent month with wit & grace.
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Linda
So glad to have a comfortable place to take refuge in and enjoy the conversations without fears of trolls.
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Kimberly Teigue
donated
$20
Love CoSo! -BehindGrnEyez @AlternativeFactsareLies and I looovvve Queen of Yarnia's shawls!
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Altamaha
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$25
For Autumn’s gorgeous shawl raffle!
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Blues Baby
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$20
Autumn's shawl raffle
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Meredith
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$20
Happy Thanksgiving
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Amarand
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$50
🍍Team Pineapple! #PizzaWars🍍
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Autumn
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$5
🍍 or 🚫🍍 - as long as it’s #pizzawar with you #CoSoFam
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M M
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$25
#CoSoLove #pizzawar
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Koko
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$25