A New Chapter for Techlore: New Weekly Stream, Content Suggestions, Monero Memberships & More

After 10+ years of fighting for digital rights, we're locking in our leanest & meanest ecosystem to date. Here's what that means for our community, and how you can be part of it.

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Hey everyone, Henry here 👋 This is one of those important, rare announcements that goes to your email inbox (only 1-2x year as promised!)

I started Techlore over a decade ago because I believed people could make a real difference in their relationship with technology and push back against surveillance expansion. Fast forward to 2026: We reach hundreds of thousands of people monthly. We've covered everything from Chat Control votes to VPN bans to age verification mandates to the necessary resources required for you all to take better control of your technology. I firmly believe we've built one of the most approachable technology education resources on the internet.

And here's what's changing now: you get to directly influence what we cover, not just support from the sidelines.

What That Looks Like

You Help Decide What We Create

We're launching community content ideas. This is a living board where Techlorians submit what they want to see covered, and the public can keep track:

We still have our own internal schedule, but this is the beginning of offering formal ways for you all to influence what we cover.

Why are submissions limited to members? We reach hundreds of thousands monthly. Opening submissions to everyone would create an unmanageable flood. With this system, we can review every idea and maintain quality suggestions that shape our roadmap. Down the road, I'd like to open public voting. But...one thing at a time 😄

Weekly Stream To Answer Your Questions

Since our forum closure, I've been brainstorming new formats for a new weekly livestream where I can be available for you. So I'm happy to announce our newest weekly stream:

Every Friday, we're going live with the Techlore Office Hours Q&A. Submit questions about privacy, security, digital rights, or anything Techlore-related. Members get priority answers, but everyone can watch and participate! I encourage you to submit questions in-advance if you're unable to attend live, or are a Techlorian who wants priority. This week's stream is already scheduled, so make sure to set a reminder, and I'll see you soon:

Better Platforms With More Privacy & Independence

We're in the process of sunsetting our Patreon on December 31, 2026—consolidating memberships to Ghost. This allows us to:

Enable private registrations. Patreon tends to block alias emails and Privacy.com cards. Whereas Ghost allows users to register with better privacy.
Finally support Monero memberships. Pay with the most private cryptocurrency, with an additional 10% discount! You can become a Techlorian for 12 months at a time with Monero by submitting the form here.
Have Better independence. Tying to the previous point, this allows us to be more independent and avoid weird shenanigans like how Apple is demanding an additional cut from Patreon subscriptions.
And Easier Maintenance. We are only a team of two, centralizing to one platform makes delivering perks consistently much simpler to accomplish. And with less fees too!

Announcing Our Newest Perks

While we publish our resources entirely free for the world, many people still want more individualized help. In the past, we offered one-on-one coaching to try and offer this to people, but it was challenging to maintain at scale. So taking what we learned, we're formalizing new offerings as part of our membership tiers:

Exclusive Signal community & my personally curated digital rights RSS Feed (Bronze+ | Real-time discussions with other Techlorians. And yes, direct access to the exact curated RSS feed I update daily to keep track of what's happening, so you don't have to)
Re-introducing your name in video credits and shout-outs (Silver+ and Gold+)
Monthly private calls with me + exclusive behind the scene updates (Diamond | Strategy, advice, deep-dive discussions)

Why All Of This Matters

Every week, we cover new threats: encryption backdoors, age verification expansion, VPN bans, browser extension schemes. It's easy to feel powerless against governments and corporations with infinite resources. But here's what I've learned in 10 years: we all can seriously make an impact!

When thousands of people understand what Chat Control actually does, they contact their MEPs. When people know age verification is surveillance infrastructure, they push back locally. When our community shares educational content with family who "don't care about privacy," we expand the movement.

My goal is for Techlore to not just be a YouTube channel. I want us to help build the movement that's proving individuals can fight (and win!)

What's Next

We've offered perks we didn't deliver consistently. We've spread ourselves thin across too many platforms. We've fallen behind on larger projects. So we made hard choices the last several months: we closed the public forum (it needed dedicated employees, not part-time attention), we consolidated platforms (Ghost instead of multiple support platforms), and are building the systems we can actually maintain with a two-person team.

While this isn't the community we had. This is the community we can sustain and grow for the next decade.

If you're already supporting us: Thank you. Seriously. You've made everything we do possible. Don't forget to access your perks at techlore.tech/techlorian and claim them. (Patreon members: You're grandfathered through Dec 31, 2026. Details here)

If you've been thinking about supporting: There hasn't been a better time, especially now you can even do it with Monero!

If you can't support financially: That's completely fine! Just keeping yourself educated & sharing with people what's going on is still the most important thing we all can do. I'm excited to see you all for our weekly Office Hours and our other content! All of these changes will continue to make our standard content better + more polished + more consistent too 🫡

The fight isn't slowing down, and neither are we. Thank you all for your support, and I'll see you in our stream tomorrow, and our next digital rights newsletter.

— Henry & Team