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

Coffee and | $20

love to CoSo.

Cassandra Carolina | $350

This is to help maintain #CoSo, our compassionate haven as we face yet another mass shooting

Asha

Thanks for creating a home for us. It's a great source of comfort.

Julia Patterson

Raspberry Panda | $3

For the $3 drive and 100% funded.

Sky | $5

Feels only appropriate to give support back to a place that continues to support me, & many others.

GreenLady | $50

Hello Mr Jester♥ Thank you very much for providing this site. It provides for a warm and safe environment.- Thank you CoSoNauts for your kindness and honesty in your interactions. This Place Is Goodness.

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)