CounterSocial Life-Support
$354,483.74
Raised
5645
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
Our donors
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Kathryn
donated
$10
moist 🍻
BB
Blues Baby
donated
$10
Moist
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M
donated
$100
#ThankYouJester #CoSoLove
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Kathryn
donated
$20
love y’all
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greenlady
donated
$50
Dear Mr JESTER♥/Crew♥- - -Thank U So Much 4 Creating And Monitoring This Wonderful Site It Is My Place Of Rest🌞 Naut/FAM♥ Thank U 4 Your Kindness And Support♥ BLESSINGS♥
KM
Anonymous
donated
$25
Render & Jester
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L’abbé Trithemius
donated
$20
Lost the bet, oh darn. ;)
NH
Anonymous
donated
$50
To move the needle
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RJ
Lost the bet
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L’abbé
donated
$20
🌺🪐🎶 - L'abbe Trithemius
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loffreni
donated
$50
To losing a bet with @TheAbbotTrithemius
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JG
donated
$1,000
For the CoSo fam❤️
LG
Lisa Geisness
donated
$40
#matchingminX5. Thx, J, for this site.
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Patti
donated
$500
Thank You J for all you do! Hoping this moves the needle a little!
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TJ
donated
$20
GK
Anonymous
donated
$100
To help move that needle! #CoSoLove (NanaWithSoul)
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Anonymous
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$10
🌻 #MatchingMin
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TJ
donated
$30
TD
Tim Dolan
donated
$20
Come on in, the water is fine.
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M
donated
$100
#CoSoLove #ThankYouJester
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Damien Rigden
donated
$10
Sold another Coso Disk 1 Linocut!
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Melissa
donated
$20
For our community. And for the sanity of J.
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Greenlady
donated
$50
Mr. JESTER♥ Thank U♥ 4 this Wonderful Site; #CoSoNautFAM♥ Thank U 4 Your Support. I Enjoy being Here
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Damien Rigden
donated
$5
Cover $5 of international shipping.
DR
Damien Rigden
donated
$10
Sold another print! Thanks to @phase2 and @stueytheround
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Patti
donated
$150
Thank you J! I appreciate all you do
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Damien Rigden
donated
$10
Sold another print! 21 red floppy disks left and one golden one left!
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Damien Rigden
donated
$10
Sold another floppy disk Linocut! There are 22 red ones and one magical gold one left!
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Damien Rigden
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$10
Sold my first Coso Linocut print! There are 23 more red and ONE magical gold one for sale!
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Damien Rigden
donated
$124
One dollar for each page of my novella. Thanks M.L. Clark!