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Rampant censorship and bans have created fertile ground for the emergence of free speech centered platforms. History provides us with abundant number of examples of the negative effects of silencing progressive thinkers.

There are many advantages to building your brand on your own domain as a content creator. Here we discuss the 3 indispensable ones.

There are many advantages to building your brand on your own domain as a content creator. Here we discuss the 3 indispensable ones.

The Internet wasn't always a place where Giants like Google and YouTube run the whole show and everyone is subjected to their restrictive rules and notorious disregard for privacy. Alternatives still exist

The cost of the monthly subscription is the full cost. All creators would be receiving their earnings directly from their subscribers to their own accounts. Not only that, at the moment we are scouting for suitable content creators who are willing to endorse our platform and use it entirely for free as well as earn a commission on the income we generate as a result of their active referral. Could you be one of them?

Hey Steven thanks for your comments.

Germany is quite interesting. There is some restrictions and we are aware of them, but at the same time Germany also gives a tonnes of protection. We hedge our bets by making it easy to switch servers to any other place.

Cloudflare is only used for landing page and admin of pages. The pages are hosted on our own servers.

About hacking, it has always been this way and no matter what business security should be of high importance.

They can and probably will ban our Stripe account. That's why every creator will have to connect their own payment providers. This means they could shut down payments to us, but not all creators. A lot of other services uses one payment provider for all transactions, but this makes them vulnerable as their whole business can get shutdown if they don't do exactly what the payment provider says. Crypto fixes a lot of this.

We opened a can of worms, and it will be tough, but I doubt we are so much trouble as you expect. Rumble, BitChute, Odysee, Locals are all in the same sphere and they had troubles, but not as much as you'd expect.

Thanks again for the comment Steve!

"They have no place in our society". Who are they? Concretely! And by "our society", do you mean your society? Can we be allowed in? On what terms? What if you're the one not allowed in? Should we close your twitter, facebook, youtube account. Maybe we should go after your bank account, insurance, and your job so that you can't feed yourself or your family? This have happend to many people who just said something wrong on social media. This is the kind of thing you are advocating, and it is frankly disgusting.

Of course!

We use Python/Flask for backend. Postgresql, Redis and Docker Compose. We use Amazon S3 for hosting images, but we have made it easy to switch in case there will be problems (as seen by Parler). Frontend we use a mix between Vuejs and Jinja2.

And for hosting we run both on our own servers and on Netlify, but Netlify can easily be switched out as well in case of troubles.

Before you said we were fascist for helping the common man speak their mind against big-tech and big government. Quite ironic.

You seem scared of any opinion that is not shared with you, and then go directly to straw man arguments.

Talking works - Daryl Davis is a proof of that.

https://www.ted.com/talks/daryl_davis_why_i_as_a_black_man_a...

Thank you Gollapallli, said better than I could!

I think we can all agree that when we attempt to silence certain views, they are often pushed underground instead of being fully eradicated. Not only that...they gain more traction. Honestly, what we are going to try to achieve on PinePage, is foster an environment conductive to dialogue. A place where problematic content can be challenged as opposed to getting it banned outright. Check out the story of Daryl Davis who singlehandedly dismantled his local pocket of the KKK, by attending their rallies and openly challenging their rhetoric.

Thank you! We are currently developing the PayPal integration and most importantly Crypto payments possibility that would entirely change the game.

Great point! Most of our hosting happens in Germany, but our official company registration is in Estonia, presently indicated in the Contact Us page on our website.

Salutations HN, I am Martin, the founder of PinePage. Our team has been working on creating a Patreon alternative that celebrates differences and controversy. We want to be a part of crafting a world where people can create without fear of exclusion. We take pride in being a Free Speech friendly platform - see our Free Speech Manifesto v1.0 (pinepage.com) and uphold a Zero Ban Policy. On PinePage users can create a free website in seconds, engage with their audience through a forum or blog, accept donations, or design membership tiers, all on their own domain. We welcome all types of content, no matter the genre; Political, Religious, Adult, Explicit…no content category is off limits as long as it doesn’t effectively break the laws of the jurisdiction under which our platform operates. It’s clear the consequences of censorship are far more dangerous than those of allowing everyone to freely state their beliefs. The past has shown us, time and time again, the effects of silencing the visionaries. Those in power decide what gets written in the history books, and everyone else’s views get crushed under the weight of censorship. We might be legally obligated to hide content in direct violation of the law, but your account would not be suspended, nor would you face an overall platform expulsion and demonetization.

Feedback from the HN crowd is often super harsh but beneficial, thus we’d love to hear your feedback about https://pinepage.com either here on HN or directly to me martin@mail.pinepage.com

Thanks!

Remember, it’s better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.

YouTube's monetization rules require 1000 subscribers and minimum 4000 hrs of watch time. Making money on FB and other social platforms is equally hard. There is a solution so even if you have only a few hardcore fans, they can still support your work, and no...it isn't Patreon.

All content creators grapple for more views, but everyone knows that can hardly happen without the right SEO practices.

No discovery function can replace genuine loyal followers' engagement which typically originates on their main social media or streaming service. What we seek to provide is a platform that allows users to profit from that engagement, allow them to build their brand and create a community on their very own website.

Good point. You can upload your videos to any platform and restrict access to them. Then embed links to them into your PinePage site similarly to other monetization platforms and grant paid access through membership subscriptions or a one time fee.

Thanks! Stay tuned for developments

Very true, payment platforms have their own limitations, but PinePage is in the process of actively developing additional payment integrations such as PayPal and most importantly crypto.

PinePage might be obligated by law to remove illegal content, but we won't remove the user from our platform or demonetize their remaining content. By Spicy we mean controversial in all its expressions. Adult, Explicit, Political, Religious, you name it. As long as it doesn't incite violence and break the laws of our jurisdiction, all content is welcome. PinePage is a monetization platform similar to Patreon and many others, hence the creators' income gets generated by their active supporters as opposed to ad revenue.

In light of the recent platform bans, the need arises for a platform that upholds free speech and sports a Zero ban policy