CounterSocial Life-Support

$257,675.50

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 Wall1172

Ben | $50

#CoSoRocks

GreenLady | $50

Dear Jester♥ Thank U 4 Providing this SAFE Space 4 Us. I Enjoy The Friendly Yet Honest Camaraderie That Exists Here. BLESS U♥/ALL♥.:>)

Dana

I’m thinking $5 a month (so $60 a year) isn’t near enough for the enjoyment CoSo gives me so instead of upgrading I’d rather give this way.

Cindy | $25

Happy New Year

GreenLady | $50

Dear Jester Thank you so much for you leadership in creating this fantastic site. I love it here. Bless you♥

Altamaha | $50

Happy New Year & thanks, J!

M | $200

#CoSoLove Thank you, J!

Jeff | $50

Thank you J and helpers for offering this safe space.

Anonymous | $20

Merry Christmas!

Altamaha | $25

CoSo ho ho ho! Merry Christmas 🎄

Suzanne | $18.18

Doing my bit to keep the roll going!

Anonymous | $500

Merry Christmas, Happy Holiday's pendrag

A.W. | $5.21

Here's my Equifax breach windfall. 🤣

Anonymous

Thank you for your service to the community. And I am sorry I just found the time to give back a little.

GreenLady ANON | $10

Thank you for this site. It literally is a --LIFE-SAVER. BLESS You♥

amy fb | $100

Anonymous | $50

Amount saved so far on pay to win games.

JULIA | $25

Well worth the price of admission!

Anonymous | $10

Ian Seckington | $100

Cathy | $25

Keep this place humming 😘💕✨️

Matthew | $11.11

Merlin | $100

Some #CoSoLove

Melinda Kovacs | $50

Honoring my friend and her shop at https://www.etsy.com/shop/StrokeSurvivorCrafts?

John Bennett | $50

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!