CounterSocial Life-Support
$249,090.44
Raised
3778
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 Wall1133
JG Schaeffer | $100
Didn’t guess it, but what a great video!
Kay | $10
Anonymous | $5
For the who is Alice game. KGinKS
Becca | $10
Jill | $10
Rosie (TJ) M | $50
Mike Harmanos | $10
Who is Alice??? I still don’t know!!!
Anne | $30
Kat Sanford
#WhoisAlice 😊
Amy W | $5
Day 1 wrong guesses
Kathleen | $5
My wrong guess
Kathryn | $5
my wrong guess!
Natalie | $10
For the @alicethewondernaut game. LOL
Anonymous | $10
#WhoIsAlice 🤪 @Knitpurrl…. Not me
Rich Quaal | $125
Just for the fun of alicethewondernaut's mystery
Graydon | $6.66
Who is Alice?
Tommy | $10
TK²
Michael | $10
Cher | $50
Third and last guess. Jelena (yesimfunny) is not #WhoisAlice !
Jack | $10
Fun Way to raise the bar.
Sea Anemone | $20
WhoIsAlice - tis not 4. Jaunty nor 5. @Mikeharmanos Who is the owner of that incredible mane?
Melinda | $20
#WhoIsAlice - I guessed wrong but love the game and love this place
Jericho Tasker | $10
I should have read Cher's comment first!
MountainMan | $5
#WhoIsAlice
Cher | $50
Liminal Lil is not #WhoisAlice
Mo Zurk | $50
Cher | $50
#WhoisAlice? Shucks, it's not Daniel!
Sea Anemone | $30
#WhoIsAlice Someone silly that's for sure. But is Alice 1. Minholkin, 2. Tyghe, or 3. LadyZurk? Only time will tell
Mo Zurk | $50
Alice, you Are Wonderful. With much CoSo Lurve, ~ Mo
Raspberry Panda | $20