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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M | $100

#CoSoLove #ThankYouJester

Damien Rigden | $10

Sold another Coso Disk 1 Linocut!

Melissa | $20

For our community. And for the sanity of J.

Greenlady | $50

Mr. JESTER♥ Thank U♥ 4 this Wonderful Site; #CoSoNautFAM♥ Thank U 4 Your Support. I Enjoy being Here

Damien Rigden | $5

Cover $5 of international shipping.

Damien Rigden | $10

Sold another print! Thanks to @phase2 and @stueytheround

Patti | $150

Thank you J! I appreciate all you do

Damien Rigden | $10

Sold another print! 21 red floppy disks left and one golden one left!

Damien Rigden | $10

Sold another floppy disk Linocut! There are 22 red ones and one magical gold one left!

Damien Rigden | $10

Sold my first Coso Linocut print! There are 23 more red and ONE magical gold one for sale!

Damien Rigden | $124

One dollar for each page of my novella. Thanks M.L. Clark!

Julia Patterson | $25

Just a little bit to help keep the lights on ❤

Rosie | $50

Denise | $50

Ninety Nine | $25

Thank you for all the favorites to get CoSo to 50% funded <3

L’abbé Trithemius | $50

🎶🌺🪐

Altamaha | $50

CoSo feeds my nudipix obsession. 🌻

Ninety Nine | $50

99 has donated bc CoSo is my home :)

Lindan Johnson | $10/M

COSO is one of the best resources I rely on every day. Thanks for making it happen.

Damien Rigden | $10/M

Graham Shevlin | $25

Proud to support THE next-generation social platform

Ann | $500

Jason | $20

I finally hit 200 followers! Thanks, J!

M | $150

#CoSoLove and #gratitude

Corlin B | $50

To Keep Ed209 in ammunition

| $10

I so appreciate all you do to give us a friendly place to land.

Mister | $200

Thanks, J, for creating this site. Much appreciated!

Green | $50

Hello Mr JESTER♥ THANK U 4 This Special Site 💚 It Is Truly My Go 2 Place. Thank U CoSoNautFam♥ 4 Your Kindness and support BLESS ALL♥

Ann Coleman | $500

Jennifer Schaeffer | $10/M