CounterSocial Life-Support

$253,827.55

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

Anonymous | $150

#Hedgehogs4CoSo donation. Thanks to all who participated! (NanaWithSoul)

Kathryn | $6

J’s 6 ♥️ 🙏🏼 Thank you Sea!!

Blues Baby | $6

Sea told me to.

Catherine Snyder | $25

Ninety Nine | $50

99 supports CoSo

Cher | $1,000

In appreciation and support for J's vision to provide a safer platform; for his dedication, unselfish and tireless efforts while shouldering the majority of the burden to maintain these services; for all of you who through your engagement have made this platform fun, educational and thought-provoking; and in honor of Render and Phase, my personal heroes, who fight the fight because of and despite their own unimaginable pain. We are 6 years strong and unstoppable because COSO love is undeniable.

Bob | $25

Helping to keep this wonderful site going!

Julia Patterson | $30

Keeping the lights on keeps us from losing our minds!

Anonymous | $15

Doing what i can to make that bar go all red! =0)❄️

Roy

Kat Sanford | $25

Helping to keep the lights on 🎄

Cynthia | $25

$ keeping Coso lights on. One ticket for the Xbox raffle please. Thanks for our home J!

Sherry | $25

Raspberry | $3

$3 tip for the wonderful sandbox.

Anonymous

liiiiights!

Anonymous | $250

Time to fully fund CoSo & give J a break! Doing my small part, with gratitude. (Nanawithsoul)

Daniel | $50

2 raffle tickets for the XBox draw, please

Altamaha | $50

Let’s keep the lights on

Kathryn | $10

I wish I had more right now ♥️

Faay | $25

Xbox for the hubby & CoSo. win win

Ian Seckington | $100

A little something so I can keep posting stupid dog pictures...

Ken Donnelly | $50

Gzim | $50

Xbox 2 Entries... 😊

M | $25

#CoSoXBoxGiveAway

Anonymous | $50

Xbox CoSo donation❤️

Lena | $250

CoSoBirthday auction -- picture print!

pendrag | $500

CoSo Mutual Aid match and 6th year in the bag

Altamaha | $60

Tried to donate on the 17th and for whatever reason it didn’t go through. Thanks to J for creating this oasis.

Anonymarsh | $1,600

CoSoversary SIX, bitches...done $600 before...not ready to do $6000...so here we are...six years of #CoSoLurv...let's keep it goin, J...yeah?

M | $285

#CoSoBirthday #6years Card Deck Auction