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This is small web, consent driven, artist populated, non-commercial mechanism, attribution promoting, community radio for the fediverse.
RFF is absolutely free form, ALL genre for you to drop in any time and discover all manner of weird wild and wonderful artists. Happy accidents, occasional genre waves to ride or absolute wild collisions of sound and style are part of the experience.
RFF Comfy Channel is carefully populated from the same pool of contributing artists but only includes "lighter" fare. No spoken or sound collage pieces at the top/bottom of hours, no harsh frequencies or vocals, no counterpoint and hopefully nothing that jumps out at you. The idea is low anxiety complimentary stream to our main channel and ethos that will help more listeners join in the party of supporting fedi artists! how we got here
For help with submissions, updates/edits/deletions or any questions DM: @radiofreefedi@musician.social non fedi requests can email tqk4yg4w at duck dot com
our mate gabe from @owncast@fosstodon.org really wanted a 24/7 feed of fedi artists video, audio, anything. Given we have both tried to do video and podcast formats with sustainability of content and buy-in issues, here is a pivot as a 'simplified' reboot of fediverse today radio by @controlfreak@hackers.town. radio free fedi is open licensed artists AND copyright using artists who have awesomely granted consent for inclusion in this project. You can too! With this 24/7 radio model we hope to be more sustainable being open for submissions and in promoting our sound creating fedizens. There is behind the scenes work to keep clean data and avoid super long tracks or audio anomalies, and select a few tracks with reasonable run times from albums if the artist does not recommended specifics. Also station programming and editing spoken pieces and voice assets. Outside of a reasonable sound quality, length, and picking a number of indicative tracks from albums, and quick check for good fediquette, genre is wide open. It's not about the "list" or a "curator" it's about the artists and hopefully fun.
Third party or centralised external tools to make bandcamp "playlists" are ok ish as a stop gap and fair to class as the best least worst mainstream option but not great for organic interaction. Spotify openly does not respect artists. Hyper open sharing tools to date often don't do too well with attribution or respecting agency of creators. Stop gaps, hyper open open methods and walled garden corporate methods seldom strike a good balance to retain attribution and actually promote, celebrate, interact and invite to support the artist without costing everyone involved some painful percentage of coin, privacy and agency.
We are using open and non-commercial platforms and formats where possible, there are no ads, no third party remote scripts, cookies, trackers, fonts etc unless introduced by your alternative playing app/method. There is a single local javascript for updating real-time stream and artist infos. The audio stream is collecting basic aggregate counts only.
Licensing:
We think there is a way to promote each other and co-exist in such an effort leaning a bit less on walled gardens even with blended license and attribution models since attribution and consent are paramount. Any original material from radio free fedi is CC-BY-NC-ND. Any merged or derivative pieces are presented as with permission for radio free fedi and attributed to the collaborators and we note the license and artist link for the original work if applicable. All music and words we play retain the license that shows on this page for each piece as per the artists' wishes. All copyright materials we play have been consented by each artist for streaming only on radio free fedi. Please do not re-use the stream, DO however contact individual artists if you would like to use their work for your project. Support fedi artists!
Many artists have open licenses including variations of Creative Commons, learn more about #CC. Others have given explicit consent for radio play here at radio free fedi. Be kick ass and respect all artists' wishes.
We are doing our best to respect and promote fediverse artists, their licenses, consent and whatever formats and links they provide and as such radio free fedi cannot be completely aware of what lies beyond all the clicks. We expect classic standard fediverse etiquette of no nazis or fascists, no harassment or abuse of any kind, no racism, no bigotry, no ableism, trans lives matter, black lives matter. We want to radiate inclusiveness and empathy and also rock some kick ass tunes, sounds and words. Please let us know if we get anything wrong or we are accidentally promoting anything untoward.
We manually check, clean and add data for every single track to be certain we can show artists desired links attributions and licenses at all times which is our mission, a point where many other sharing platforms fail us. However, it is sometimes hard to go deep on every external link and account for every submission and we want for all artists to embody good fediquette.
Keep the fedi weird and wonderful! Enjoy.
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Any original material from radio free fedi is CC-BY-NC-ND. Any merged or derivative pieces are presented as with permission for radio free fedi and attributed to the collaborators and we note the license and artist link for the original work if applicable. All music and words we play retain the license that shows on this page for each piece as per the artists' wishes. All copyright materials we play have been consented by each artist for streaming only on radio free fedi. Please do not re-use the stream, DO however contact individual artists if you would like to use their work for your project. Support fedi artists!