PeerTube, Mastodon, Surveillance Report, & Patreon Updates!

Exciting updates for the Techlore Community!

Let’s keep this (semi) quick to save everyone time:

New PeerTube Instance & Autosync

We’ve received questions from you regarding why PeerTube falls behind other video platforms. Frankly, because it’s a pain to manage given our circumstances. To resolve this issue, we’ve migrated to a new instance that:

• Is far more up-to-date with its version of PeerTube

• Has new features, including an automatic YouTube sync

• Is closer to our target audience & demographic

I’ve imported some of our highlight content from our YouTube, but it’s not a complete mirror. With that said, all new content should be 1:1 from YouTube. Thank you everyone for working with the delays on this!

★ Join our new instance on TILvids

(I want to thank Nick from The Linux Experiment for putting me in contact with the instance admin, Kelly - and especially Kelly for getting us set up.)

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Mastodon

For those who missed our PSAs, we have officially decided to post Mastodon-first, which will then be cross-posted to Twitter. This means our time and attention is almost entirely going to Mastodon.

★ Join our Mastodon

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Surveillance Report Mishap

To re-clarify, Surveillance Report is a co-project between The New Oil & Techlore. Unfortunately, during the process of migrating SR’s audio hosting to Substack, it is now appearing in the Techlore Dispatch home feed. I was under the impression an unlisted podcast would remain hidden from the homepage, so I could host things in the same publication while retaining the SR/Techlore separation. This issue will be resolved within the next couple weeks as I wait for RSS directories to redirect to the new SR-only publication, when I will then delete the podcast from Techlore Dispatch.

If this is confusing: Just ignore anything SR-related on Techlore Dispatch as it shouldn’t be there.

Thanks for working with the error as I get it fixed!

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Patreon

If you’re not already supporting us on Patreon, I have one more reason I think you should (though of course I’m biased :P)

I am now hosting a monthly Q&A the middle of each month. The next Q&A will take place about a week from now - so don’t miss it! You can ask me/my team anything you want, and we’ll get back to it. (Obviously within reason) From privacy recommendations, to personal questions, or anything else. Aside from the Q&A, there are many other perks available to different tiers, including:

• Access to a private supporters-only Signal group with myself and my team

• Sneak previews for the content we’re working on

• Your name in our video outros

• You’re supporting our totally free content, communities, and resources for the world! (And part of your contribution goes towards many other awesome initiatives!)

★ Join our Patreon

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That is all! Thank you all for being subscribed to our dispatch - and stay safe out there. Again:

★ Join our new instance on TILvids

★ Join our Mastodon

★ Join our Patreon