CounterSocial Life-Support

$268,693

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 Wall1210

Anonymous | $30

Thanks from MN

Anonymous | $20

CoSo love from @Vo1de

Patti | $500

Thank you J for all you do!

Anonymous | $20

Y’all make me laugh every day. Thanks for that. ☕️🧂

M | $150

Thank you for your integrity and always putting the users first #CoSoLove

Rich Quaal | $50

stepping up support here as a sign of my resistance there

Ann Miracle

Been here from the beginning and happy to continue to support!

Diane | $100

Thank you for keeping us all safe in this home.

code Whisperer | $133.70

as promised, revenue from shirt sales (plus a bit extra)

Rickie Bansbach | $25

Thanks for the election night CoSo call, Jester.

Blues Baby | $10

Election night call/house party. Thanks, J.

Lady Zurk | $200

FlowersForCoSo.

Lisa McBrien | $10

Anonymous

Mike Noid | $25

Georgette Kozloff | $250

M | $150

Jason | $10

Elizabeth Butterfield | $10

Ninety Nine | $50

Ryan Huber | $100

Anonymous | $22.22

Philip J

Rich Quaal | $100

Anonymous | $20

Matthew | $20

loffreni | $50

allison | $15.55

Jill | $10

Damien Rigden | $100

This is from the sale of the one and only golden #cosodisk1!