First, I want to formally announce that TE is no-longer following a Monday-Wednesday-Friday-Saturday-Sunday posting schedule. Instead, we're moving to Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday.
This is partly because we're becoming increasingly burnt out - but also because we want to double-down on our production values and context in our videos (rather than becoming a content farm). We're a small team of three full timers and one part-timer. TEN (the weekend news roundup show) is something that really should be taking up at least three full days of my time - and right now, I'm working ridiculous hours to make that happen in just two days, and it's not sustainable. And if there's a video due on a Monday (which means a Sunday pre-release) I'm ending up working through the weekends every few weeks. That's leading to severe burn out for myself and other team members.
Next, I want to let you all know that this channel no-longer has a presence on Facebook, although we do have a presence on BSky at @transportevolved.bsky.social (and of course our Mastodon at mastodon.transportevolved.com/@show)
Yesterday, Mark Zuckerberg made a pledge to remove and chance the policies of Facebook that help protect minority groups - and while Facebook still claims a zero tolerance policy for harassment, changed its rules to explicitly allow derogatory and harassing language relating to LGBTQAI+ groups and people.
As per Facebook's latest guidelines (transparency.meta.com/policies/community-standards…) : “We do allow allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality and common non-serious usage of words like “weird.”
That makes Facebook even less of a safe place for us and our community - so, instead we're focusing on deploying our own platform, and our own Discord.
You can find our (moderated) discord server online at discord.gg/gdYCCUPma8 - and keep your eyes peeled for future plans for the team and where we post.
In a world were empathy, kindness, and respect seems dead, please keep it running in your world.
Transport Evolved
Nikki here.
I'm jumping in here with a few quick updates.
First, I want to formally announce that TE is no-longer following a Monday-Wednesday-Friday-Saturday-Sunday posting schedule. Instead, we're moving to Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday.
This is partly because we're becoming increasingly burnt out - but also because we want to double-down on our production values and context in our videos (rather than becoming a content farm). We're a small team of three full timers and one part-timer. TEN (the weekend news roundup show) is something that really should be taking up at least three full days of my time - and right now, I'm working ridiculous hours to make that happen in just two days, and it's not sustainable. And if there's a video due on a Monday (which means a Sunday pre-release) I'm ending up working through the weekends every few weeks. That's leading to severe burn out for myself and other team members.
Next, I want to let you all know that this channel no-longer has a presence on Facebook, although we do have a presence on BSky at @transportevolved.bsky.social (and of course our Mastodon at mastodon.transportevolved.com/@show)
Yesterday, Mark Zuckerberg made a pledge to remove and chance the policies of Facebook that help protect minority groups - and while Facebook still claims a zero tolerance policy for harassment, changed its rules to explicitly allow derogatory and harassing language relating to LGBTQAI+ groups and people.
As per Facebook's latest guidelines (transparency.meta.com/policies/community-standards…) : “We do allow allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality and common non-serious usage of words like “weird.”
That makes Facebook even less of a safe place for us and our community - so, instead we're focusing on deploying our own platform, and our own Discord.
You can find our (moderated) discord server online at discord.gg/gdYCCUPma8 - and keep your eyes peeled for future plans for the team and where we post.
In a world were empathy, kindness, and respect seems dead, please keep it running in your world.
Nikki. x
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