PSA - https://counter.social will be temporarily going offline at 09:45AM for 30-60 minutes while we add more capacity to our infrastructure to cope with the current demand.

Figured out the perks of #countersocial Pro!

- generated URL to share your profile anywhere

- Lock account: allows you to manually approve followers

- Post Privacy: make posts "unlisted" or posted to followers only

- COSOGuard Alerts: counter social will alert you if there's indications of data breach of your account

- ADMS: automatically delete DMs sent after 24 hours on both sides of the convo

- live news streams

count me in @th3j35t3r

#countersocial #cosopro

Hey New CoSo Folks….
CoSo Tip: When you’re reading through posts and you want to know more… tap the text in the post and you can see all the responses and conversations associated with that post.

Maybe the question you’re thinking of has been answered 🥰

To create this linkage, when you are responding to a post, tap the left arrow in the original post and the conversation will thread 🪡.
Also… if there is more than one person in the original post CoSo gives the option of replying 1/2

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For the folks who want to compare CoSo to other social media platforms, just remember—

All that you see here is due to one guy, ONE PERSON, doing this on his own and largely out of his own pocket.

Take a step back and marvel at what he has accomplished *by himself* relative to other platforms with all their money, staff, and resources.

One person has created a better, viable alternative.

#gratitude #respect #GoPro #ThankYouJester

We all made memories today.

Everybody here—old-timers and brand-new arrivals—all shared in an incredible moment of opportunity, connection, and curiosity.

Today will be a day that unites many of us in a “remember when”

Remember when you joined CoSo? when all of those folks came at once?

Remember how much excitement, hope, and uncertainty we felt, for different reasons?

These experiences begin and reinforce the bonds of community and friendship

That’s the magic of CoSo
#welcome #cosolove

As a CoSo OG, I just wanted to say congratulations @th3j35t3r !! I hope you’re taking a minute to celebrate your success! 🎉

CoSo today has been like watching a sunrise welcoming a new day and chapter for our Counter Social family. Cheers to all who have joined our family. Cheers to J and those behind the scenes for the imagination, patience and endurance in building this dream ❤️

CoSo tip: If you need to slow down the Firehose column a bit, just scroll that column down a bit, it will freeze until refresh it.

If you see a column header in blue, that means there are new comments in that column.

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If you see 522 errors it just means that Jester is tinkering under the hood of CoSo and things will return to normal shortly.

My greatest Buddhist teachings:

(There ain't no free lunch, and you can't get away with shit.)

If someone bought you a spectacular lunch, you would be grateful.
If they did it day after day....
You might say, "Hey, why don't I pick up the tab today"

Please support this place.

Not right away, you are welcome to use this for free.

But think about it.

This place is still mostly funded by one person, buying us all a spectacular meal, day after day.

https://counter.social/supportcoso.html

Follow count doesn't matter at COSO. Substance and character are what everyone cares about here. There are real meaningful discussions on this platform and people treat one another with respect and civility.

Photos

All Platforms that take photos, add EXIF data to the file.
Here J scrubs all that data out first before it even hits the servers. This is a feature, not a bug, for security reasons.

Now the way to fix this is take a photo, from your camera on a smartphone or a file. Open it in any photo editor, does not matter which one. and make any small edit, any at all, crop, or enhance color, anything. then save that edited photo. Then up load that to CoSo.
All will be well.

There is a fix coming

@JJFrog

Bare With The Construction:

Yes things here are a bit shaky right now, but know that lots of things going on behind the seen to smooth it all out.

Ya know that feeling when you throw a party, expecting just a few friends...... and some how the word gets out you have live music, and the whole city shows up !

Well that's what is happening here today.
So Be Cool.
have a sit down, read the guide.
and don't be a asshat.

https://counter.social/userguide.pdf

By the way.... in here you will meet Republicans. We treat everyone with respect in that trolling will not be accepted. If you see a You will have witnessed a troll being taken out. Their life span is minutes at most. Do not be that troll.

How hard is it to be kind? If you don't want to interact or even read another's views, just mute or block. You have the power to curate your feed so it pleases you.

For those just joining and wanting to know how to navigate, here is the user guide

https://counter.social/userguide.pdf

#welcome
#userguide
#gettingaround
#Cosotips #CSTips

There is no advertising on COSO, and zero tracking of user identifying information, therefore nothing is being sold for profit here. This means, unlike other social media platforms, there is no third party revenue being generated for maintaining this platform & all the added features available for its users.

We are 100% user funded. If you can help, please consider the following options to help supplement the out-of-pocket operating expenses @th3j35t3r has each month. 💜

https://counter.social/supportcoso.html

@Anemone @th3j35t3r Or subscribe to Pro! The price is reasonable to have an ad-free, troll-free space!

Tap your own name
On Profile - Edit Profile, you can add /change Bio text, add or change Avatar, add or change Background behind Avatar, & modify a lot of Preferences.

the User Guide:
https://counter.social/userguide.pdf

Also people answer questions.

Join in!

#introductions

Welcome, everyone! There's a user guide for this site, and lots of people have been posting it. But the fire hose is moving so quickly it seems worthwhile to give it more air time if possible: counter.social/userguide.pdf

Looking forward to interacting with all these new faces!