CounterSocial Life-Support

$253,837.55

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

Jen | $60

Happy CoSoversary... thank you, J!! - Sweetteansass (Jen)

Anonymous | $6

Happy CoSoversary!

Sea Anemone | $6

Thanks Jester for having our six! Here's one for you.

Sea Anemone | $60

Happy CoSoVersary - 6 Years and still growing strong. Thank you J.

Mo | $100

Happy CoSoVersary. ~ Mo

Autumn | $600

Celebrating 6 years of CoSo! Thank you for everything that you do, J! You're appreciated more than you know.

Altamaha | $50

Happy 6th, fellow nauts!

Anonymous | $10

Thank u for keeping up the good fight against trolls, racists, liars, and fascists of any & all colors and creeds.

M | $150

#CoSoLifeSupport FiberArts Auction

marianne werz obrien | $100

in honor of the gorgeous CoSo deck of cards being auctioned, I cannot beat the current bid but I can add to the CoSo gift!

Daniel | $3

Faay | $3

Buy Jester a Beer Challenge.

loffreni | $250

I'm rounding up to $250 for the AMAZING CoSo Gippy sign auctioned off by Faay!

GreenLady | $50

HEEY Mr JESTER💖 Thank U So Much 4 Initiating And Monitoring This Wonderful site 2 The CoSoNautFAM💖 Thank U 4 Your Interactions And Support BLESSINGS💚

DANA I WESLEY-SARTI | $100

Douglas C Alder | $20

Nicolaas Janssen | $25

Rochelle Epperson | $25

I am a monthly donor. However, here’s some extra. I wish I could give 10x’s this amount because J deserves every bit.

Cynthia | $25

Thank you Jester for this oasis from the storm

Sea Anemone | $50

It never ends, thank you for keeping the lights on!

GreenLady | $50

Hello Mr. Jester♥- --Thank U 4 Initiating And Monitoring This Wonderful Site. I Do Enjoy Being Here. CoSoNautFam♥ Thank U 4 Your Kindness and support BLESS U ALL♥

Robert | $50

Thanks to J and Render

T V | $100

Thx Render & J

M | $219

Anonymous

Marion Hoyer | $100

Thank you Render for providing us with expert reporting, especially through this heartbreaking attack on Israel.

M | $100

#CoSoLove Thank you

pendrag | $100

September bump

Elaine Barlow | $500

GreenLady | $50

Dear Mr. JESTER♥--Thank U So Much 4 Initiating and Maintaining This Haven/Heaven On Earth Site IT So Calms. CoSoNautFAM♥ Thank U 4 Your KINDNESS and SUPPORT BLESSINGS♥