About radio free fedi

Our friend Gabe from @owncast@fosstodon.org wanted a 24/7 feed of fedi artists, video, audio, anything. Given various attempts by Gabe and myself at both video and podcast formats with sustainability of content and buy-in issues, RFF was an invitation to a community driven pivot.

radio free fedi is consent, agency and artist celebrating community radio from the fediverse. We actively and openly present contributing artists’ information with the hopes that you will drop-in, discover, and then LEAVE? That’s right, RFF has no interest to be an end-point for hyper focused consumption. We also do not have the resource to provide infinite custom streams and we love the community to not do soulless algorithms. We want to foster organic discovery and discourse. We want to generate support for independent artists on the platforms and methods of their choice, no judgement. Support independent and fedi artists!

Things we do a little different:

No payola, no automated submissions, every submission is checked best we can to be from a decent fedizen and not likely to harm or harass our fedi friends of all walks
Every submission is carefully checked for good data and imagery best as possible. We have less time as we've grown to fix these so good submissions help heaps!
We add an artist support link affiliated to every track so you know where to go to help each other.
We add consented public fedi link affiliated to every track so you can interact with, promote and share the artists you find.
We add artists' license and permission for every track to celebrate agency and consent and again to foster good communication for support and collaboration.
Provide discovery options for independent artists who, like many of us, find promotion a bit challenging or uncomfortable. The classic fedi LOVES indie artists and promotion in this light is never a dirty word.

Artist data is made available on this website for now playing tracks and there is further track history in various formats including a bot for the main channel in case you missed track data while you were washing the dog. If you require alternative formats for ingestion for other means to help the wider world discover and support fedi artists please reach out.

Stop gaps like Bandcamp playlists on third party tracking sites, various hyper open methods with poor discovery and walled garden corporate streaming platforms alike seldom strike a good balance to retain attribution and actually promote, celebrate, interact and ENCOURAGE direct support of artists without costing everyone involved some painful percentage of coin, privacy and agency. We are continually impressed and heartened at the community that has rallied to support each other around a more transparent and organic discovery layer.