Support Commonside

Your support helps us move closer to financial sustainability while keeping the project independent and community driven.

Privacy should not be something you have to trade away just to exist online.

Running a private, independent service costs real money.

Servers need to be paid for. Storage grows. Bandwidth gets used. Domains, backups, maintenance, security, and infrastructure all have ongoing costs.

A service can look free while being paid for in other ways.

Sometimes that means advertising. Sometimes it means tracking. Sometimes it means collecting enough information about people to turn their behaviour into a business.

Commonside does not want to work that way.

We do not want your inbox, activity, identity, or private information to become the price of using the service.

Commonside is being built as a community-supported, non-profit privacy project. No ads. No selling user data. No business model built around watching what people do.

That also means we cannot pretend the infrastructure costs nothing.

If Commonside is useful to you, you can help keep it independent.

A small contribution can help cover servers, storage, bandwidth, domains, backups, security work, and future capacity for new members.

You are not buying special treatment.

You are helping keep the service alive without making its users the business model.

Even a small amount matters.

Commonside should belong to the people who use it, not advertisers, trackers, or investors.

Offer your help

Email support@commonside.org with what you would like to contribute. Do not send account secrets or unrequested access credentials.

Donations

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