Radio Free Fedi

sounds from the fediverse to the universe

RFF broadcast multiple radio style channels from Jan 2023-Jan 2025 and made no apologies on how we might try things differently to celebrate consent, agency, attribution, how we might amplify, promote and mutually motivate one another, and facilitate as direct as possible engagement and support with our artist cousins. Oh yeah and making discovery fun for the listener and artists!

a hamster in a hammock cc0

After two years of full-time community building, community organising, programming, platform testing, live events, navigating corporate music silo and fedi networking dramas alike, pro-artist advocacy and positivity in the feeds, the hamster sprinting in the wheel powering the transmitter has entered a hammock era to spend what time he has left hopefully making some music himself.

RFF was a community building victory but in a space that is paradoxically much too wing clipped by a lack of diversity in platforms, an abundance of dramatic fragmentation with poor or intentionally no tools for artists to navigate such waves, whilst simultaneously enduring clout and corpo invasions. A landscape hard to sustain the labour and connections to radiate the vibes and build the connections we deserve.

Perhaps after a pause away from the exhaustion and negativity of the general fedi and maintaining a community project, there may be some space for legacy resources. That ain't now.

At this time https://musician.social/@radiofreefedi remains for some context, however historical links for blog, bot, and all the other services we maintained will be borked or approaching borkitude. Notifications may not be heard for a while. Plans for future advocacy and events organising with that account are barely concepts and not an immediate priority.

I let the recently played csvs run deeper than usual for the last few days of operation so you might have a final snapshot of the programming and artists links.

https://radiofreefedi.net/np/recent.txt
https://radiofreefedi.net/np/recentComfy.txt
https://radiofreefedi.net/np/recentSpecialty.txt

Not sure what other resources or tributes are being cobbled.

WeDistribute are collecting and documenting thoughts and feels from the RFF community - https://social.wedistribute.org/objects/e8078507-9dca-4b5b-a7ba-dd732d92b28f
Futzle is organising a Comfy Channel tribute compilation of collabs - https://old.mermaid.town/@futzle/113744621834221713
scy compiled the last 2 ish months of plays from all channels using our RFF extended data which always included artists' preferred public support links and license - https://codeberg.org/scy/rff-archive

Thank you to everyone that dropped-in, discovered awesome artists and then supported, collaborated and lifted one another up! If you have a spoon to spare, demand better of the things trying to fill social, music and art voids and needs real or imagined. Help each other find, sustain and amplify our artistic voices. This is what community sounds like!

Dysfunctioning of radar shield. Check the radar box. Radar shield functioning. IYKYK