CounterSocial Life-Support
$358,400.60
Raised
5688
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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Ann
donated
$50/M
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charles
donated
$100
MH
Mike Harmanos
donated
$5
SHARON LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP FOREVER
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Dana
donated
$100
Best place online EVER.
C
Anonymous
donated
$100
o7
MO
marianne obrien
donated
$10/M
Two honorary pro accounts, your choice who to gift them to. Peacebird
DA
Doug Alder
donated
$20
Jay protects your privacy, none of the others do. Let's help him keep doing that
A
Angela
Here's to the ones who do breach notification right. Well done.
MZ
Mo Zurk
donated
$100
You've been Zurked. 🙃🌱
RQ
Rich Quaal
donated
$113.64
anticipating some money back from MN taxes
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Corlin
donated
$50
Why look here, I was packing my truck for a visit, and found a couple of 20's in the bench seat.
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Darlene
donated
$10
Just Thankyou all for such hard work
K
Kat
donated
$30
For always protecting us, and this space, thank you, Jay
RB
Rickie Bansbach
May angels guide and protect you, J.
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Angela
donated
$25
Beer / popcorn / sanity, as preferred.
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Cathy
donated
$25
😘💕👋
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Cathy
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Anonymous
donated
$100
Thank you, J, for having the foresight to create this welcoming space. 🌻 (Altamaha)
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M
donated
$150
#ThankYouJester #CoSoLove
JP
Jules Patterson
Proud to be part of the COSO Family
A
Anonymous
donated
$200
Thanks for keeping such a great place running
EL
Eva-Marie Leahey
donated
$100
RA
Renee A Hoover
donated
$10
DA
Doug Alder
donated
$20
doing what I can to help keep the light on
J
Anonymous
Coso is the best platform ever
RQ
Rich Quaal
donated
$100
to affinity
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Shannon
donated
$100
Keep on keeping on my friend!
CW
code Whisperer
donated
$133.70
newsletter signups from CoSo - Thanks CoSonauts!
CS
Cathy Snyder
donated
$25
This place feels like home.
JS
JG Schaeffer
donated
$50
For my wearable dandelion! ❤️🙌❤️