CounterSocial Life-Support

$270,177.76

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

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Paul | $5

Thanks J for creating this safe space. They are a rare entity these days, with everything else becoming so toxic. Thank you for the antidote. Booga

Patti | $150

Tip for the bartender! Thank you J for all you do. Keep on keeping on

Mims Haske | $10

I can't always, but I can today, so let me throw an extra tenner your way, Jay! @th3j35t3r 💖💖💖 Thanks for your long hours of work and dedication to us all. You're a gem in the rough, maybe, but a gem none the less. ✨✨✨

Halcyon | $75

Because in one of my darkest times, all of you pulled me through, and kept my head above water. <3

Greenlady | $50

HELLO Mr. JESTER♥ Thank U/Crew 4 Initiating and Monitoring This Wonderful Site; #CoSoNautFAM♥ Thank U 4 Your Support and Camaraderie Bless All♥

Anonymous | $25

Well...THAT's a bunch of wrong answers. 😂

Anne

Where is the Mad Hatter?!

Daniel | $10

Thank you for the new chef's kiss emoji

Ninety Nine | $10

Where is that Hatter? :)

Autumn Eden-Goodman | $100

Thank you J for making CoSo the safest space on the internet. ❤️🫡❤️

Amy W | $10

Where is the Mad Hatter????

Graydon | $10.06

Tea with the Hatter and Alice wherever and whoever they may be.

Say WhatNow | $3

Fire | $5

Mad Hatter Guesses 1-5

Dot | $65

To make up for lost subscription- I'll peek in from time to time. Keep on being excellent!

Graydon | $10.06

Ko Ko | $10

#whereismadhatter

Anonymous | $50

#whereisMadHatter

Daniel | $10

#whereismadhatter

Sea Anemone | $100

Thank you Jester. There's so much going on here behind the screens. Appreciate your dedication to keeping us all safe.

Executive Function404 | $10

Happy birthday, Llama Mountain Studios 🩷

greenlady | $50

Dear Mr JESTER♥--Thank U/Staff 4 This Wonderful Site Bless U♥-4 Establishing It. 2 The CoSoNaut FAM♥-Thank U 4 Your Support Bless U♥

Mims | $10

Showing a little love for #CoSo , and thank you @th3j35t3r

Julia | $25

Robert | $25

Thanks CoSo!

M | $225

Kurt's Awesome Pen Auction #CoSoLove

pendrag | $225

#KurtHasToShareForever

Scott | $250

PenMatch

Purple Dragon | $100

To make Kurt share, hee hee

Amarand | $100

🖊️ Kurt Pen Is Mightier Matching 🖊️