CounterSocial Life-Support
$354,373.74
Raised
5640
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
AC
Average Citizen
donated
$100
Congratulations on your new endeavor (Black Box Dynamics)! I am so glad to be part of the community of CoSo!
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Lee
Thans for the emoji!
RQ
Richard Quaal
donated
$100
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Diane
donated
$10/M
I truly wish I could more. I hope if lots of us increase our donation amount just a little, it will help.Thanks for all you do.
JS
J G Schaeffer
donated
$6,666.66
Viva CoSo! Lux et veritas. Donation in honour of nonconformists everywhere.❤️🙏❤️
EB
Elizabeth Butterfield
donated
$50
Thank you for everything you do to keep our freedoms safe.
EL
Eva-Marie Leahey
donated
$100
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coreyAF5QH
donated
$10
Wish it hadn't taken me so long to find COSO!
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Patrick
donated
$10
Grateful for COSO in these, the darkest of times. - Patrick Kay & the Gr3y Syndicate
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Angkara
donated
$27
Together we can create a better internet and social media platform that empowers us NOT enslave us to harmful algorithms and harmful ideology or content. It needs a collective conscious effort to co-create true value of communication for humanity.
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Anonymous
donated
$20.25
Thanks for the movie nights!
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Gaynelle
donated
$50
There is a reason it is a cliche, freedom isn't free.
AD
Anonymous
donated
$20.25
Happy New Year from Altamaha! 🦖🦖🦖🦖🦖🦖🦖
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Theresa
SW
Sarah Waugh
donated
$25
Always grateful when I'm able to help.
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DD
donated
$100
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Eva-Marie
donated
$100
Thank you for all you do, J
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Sea Anemone
donated
$25
To quote above, "We are building a revolution in responsible social media." And it's true. Thank you J for doing the heavy lifting.
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M
donated
$150
#CoSoAuction win of beautiful photo offered by Lindy <3 #CoSoLove
CW
code Whisperer
As promised (xmas shirt sales)
BM
Bob McCloy
Thx for all you do.
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Anonymous
LW
Linda Wisner
donated
$25
MA
Marianne aobrien
donated
$25
In Honor of the beautiful Bird photo auction by @Lindy
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Robert Schuman
donated
$10
merrry christmas
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JG Schaeffer
donated
$200
Donation for winning the auction of BlueStateBabe’s gorgeous shawl!💖🌈💖
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Anonymous
donated
$100
Happy Christmas, J! Thanks for this safe haven in turbulent times. <3
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Amy
donated
$7.44
Courtesy of Equifax Databreach Settlement #2. Thanks for protecting my personal information better than they did.
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Robert Schuman
donated
$10/M
supporrting the servers
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Lisa
donated
$10
This is officially my third donation. Love the site and everything you do.