Successful supporter drive supplements Spritely's story

The Spritely team is overjoyed by the support we've received in our first ever supporter drive. More than just donations, these are individual voices which inspire us to deliver on our promise of a more secure future.

The world needs social media that isn't powered by centralized sources that don't have our best interests in mind. Spritely's mission helps make that more achievable. 🖤

- Josh Mock

Spritely is painting a picture of a hopeful, human future for people and their communication, and have a credible vision to get there. That's a rare thing, and worthy of support.

- David Anderson

My digital life is my life.

Corporations and their centralized web services exist to turn a profit. They’ll eventually do so by extracting what they can from me. And by using their services. I’ve been giving them coercive leverage!

To hold pieces of me hostage.

No mas.

- Moto A

More than five hundred people have decided to donate to Spritely so far, with more than three hundred new voices being heard during this campaign!

We easily surpassed our original goal of $80,000 with weeks to spare! Even though we fell short of our stretch goal we introduced in January, our final amount was $90,000, well in excess of what we expected.

Also, if you donated at the Silver level or higher during the campaign, your name has already been added to the credits for Cirkoban in the shiniest way we could think of. Our founder, Christine Lemmer-Webber, is busy working on doodles to send out to the Diamond tier supporters and those should be received in the mail in the near future. As part of our appreciation for your support, we are keeping the tiered reward system for future donations, regardless of funding drive, and we hope to add even more rewards in the future.

Just because the campaign is over doesn't mean we are slowing down. Just the opposite; your support has given us a second wind. Already, we've released new versions of goblins and hoot and we have even more in store for the near future. On top of this, we gave seven presentations at FOSDEM which laid out our vision and our progress and allowed us to meet with partners and supporters in person.

Despite the recent uncertainty in non-profit funding in the US, we are continuing to work against centralized interests as hard as we can, and all of your support makes that possible. Donor drive or not, we always welcome more donations and we appreciate every dollar and cent.

Thank you to everyone who made this supporter drive a success. We couldn't have done it without you!