CounterSocial Life-Support

$253,887.55

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

Matthew

because CoSo's legit bomb

Jules

Kathryn | $10

luv y’all XO

Novels | $20

Thanks for playing my CoSo game

Roy | $20

Well, I found out there wasn't a Telethon this weekend, so what the heck.

Paul Barrett | $100

I’m donating because you have some amazing quilters and embroiders there. Check them out and visit their websites.

Tiptoe

Ein Tropfen suf den heißen Dtein as we say- I know more is needed to make up for the loss keep on keeping on

M | $105

CoSoQuilt <3

Joyce Pusel | $30

CoSo Quilt

Anna | $100

Supporter since Day 1.

Robert L | $50

Thankful for COSO, it is the one social media site I visit for news and views.

Brent | $15

Quilt raffle

Sherri | $45

For the quilt

Daniel | $15

My raffle ticket for the CoSoQuilt

marianne obrien | $15

CoSoQuilt

Greenlady ANON | $50

Dear Mr.JESTER♥ Thank you 4 initiating And Maintaining this wonderful site. It is my HAVEN. CoSoNautFAM♥Thank U 4Your Kindness and Support.

Erica Berry | $30

CoSoQuilt - Beanc I don’t take delivery, but this is a fab idea. For donation to the charity of your choice.

Cheri Frost | $15

Rich Quaal | $150

to honor Oma-Trisha's handmade quilt

Mike Harmanos | $6.37

In honor of Frank Cannon for winning the anti-fascist polling bet (96% vs. 98%). 5 quid = $6.27 American

Anna | $25

This is my donation as part of the #CoSoBooktrasures auction 📚📚📚

Sea Anemone | $50

Thank you for taking out the trash. I willingly offer this as Troll Tax in the spirit of gratitude.

M | $200

#CoSoBookTreasures and #CoSoLove

Anonymous | $72.50

#CosoBookTreasures - love those CoSo Book Auctions! I found an extra $2.50 in the couch! Curious & Coffee

Mo Zurk | $200

Sweetest lil Book Auction pledge.

Anonymous | $150

For winning bid for The Way Winter Comes. (NanaWithSoul)

Greenlady | $50

Mr. JESTER THANK U♥ 4 All Your Efforts in Maintaining CounterSocial. It Is Comforting And Full Of Information. Thank U♥ 2 CoSoNautFAM♥ 4 Your Kindness And Support.

Sheryl | $25

I love learning about your network. I'm having a good time in conversation. Thank you

John Downey | $10

toward cosocooks- fab idea

GreenLady | $50

Dear Mr Jester♥ This Donation is 2 THANK U♥ 4 Providing This Wonderful Space 4 Serious and FUN Discussions. Than U #CoSoNautFAM♥ 4 Your KINDNESS♥ Bless U ALL♥