CounterSocial Life-Support
$257,532.50
Raised
3969
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 Wall1171
Rae | $15
Thank you Jester, for all that you do! It isn't much, I know, but it might be enough to oil a cog or something...
Greenlady | $50
Hello Mr. JESTER♥ Thank U So Much 4 Establishing This unbelievable site. U.CoSoNautFAM♥ R So Friendly and Supportive. Bless U/ALL♥ :>)
Melinda | $3
#ThirdDayLove
Melinda | $20
Small token to honor the giant work Phase and Render have done. #CoSoLove from Mel K
M | $60
#CoSoLove a door closes and a window opens
Tad Ishihara | $25
Best social media platform on the planet! This month's contribution is dedicated to all the CoSo artists and writers.
GreenLady | $50
Good Evening Mr. JESTER/CoSoFAM. A Big Thank U. 4 This Sweet Site. Your Creation Of KINDNESS Is WHAT the World Needs NOW --And 4-EVER. BLESS U♥.
M | $225
#CoSoLove and #Gratitude for the beautiful art created & contributed by Maude and auctioned by Mel <3 and as always, #ThankYouJester
Doug Alder | $20
Altamaha | $25
Til payday, a small token of appreciation for J’s incredible work on simplified mode. Big mahalos 🌻
Jack Kriegh | $50
Well done.
Anonymous | $100
In recognition and support for all Phase & Render share of themselves with all of us lucky enough to be here on CoSo. (Nanawithsoul)
Rich Quaal | $120
Thank you, CoSo!
Dana DelSignore
GreenLady | $50
Hello Mr. JESTER Thank U So Much 4 All Your Time and Efforts In Providing This Wonderful Site and Community. It Is So Comforting. People Are So Kind And Helpful. BLESS ALL.
Dave Cox | $200
Grateful for a cool place to be!
Altamaha | $100
In honor of our friend Mark Correro. Remember how he lived. ⚖️
Cathy Rudolph
GreenLady | $50
Happy February Jester♥ Thank U for Your Generosity and KINDNESS In Maintaining This Site. It Is Wonderful 2 Meet Such Awesome CoSoNauts. BLESS U♥/All♥
ATX Jane
Anonymous | $100
A little extra this month to help continue to provide this platform. -pendrag
Sarah | $100
Jester, so appreciate, in my world of ranching and outside work, the expertise and the hours spent creating and maintaining a fun but wholesome space. I’m so slow, but getting better. Will get rid of my egg someday. Hoping you have someone feeding you dinners. XXXOOO
Anonymous | $100
Showing some #CoSoLove (NanaWithSoul)
Altamaha | $50
It’s the People here who make the magic.
Anonymous | $50
Let's close the gap folks.
ShowDem Kitties | $100
CoSo is worth every bit and more than $5/mo.
Pew! Pew! pew! pew! | $50
Not quite a jar of dirt. More like a thimble of dirt.
Ana
I’m not a believer in anything, but I’m gonna trust my gut and donate. The little I know about this site, has brought me peace, so if it helps spread it… I’m all in. Gonna trust my info is as safe as can be.
Laurel | $50
Thanks for helping to save my sanity, Jester. ❤️
BB | $100
Thanks Jester for providing the safe and sane haven that is Coso.