radio free fedi
RFF is entering maintenance/sunset mode.
We've helped empower, amplify and motivate the music community within the Fediverse by celebrating artist consent and agency, direct support, and promoting quality sounds.
If you've participated along the way, you can be proud of the gauntlet we've thrown down for community and vibes and the discovery, collaboration and support fomented.
We'll accept music submissions until mid-Dec and the station will power down in Jan 2025.
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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
@radiofreefedi this is very sad. But understandable. Thank you for all your work on this. It was greatly appreciated.
radio free fedi
There's been a colleague team for over a year to vent & plot for the station.
Even more focused for months learning the ethos and manual points of difference that generate the final outputs of RFF.
Through sounding out all the options you might pitch, attempting to engage others for NON-TECH labour, there was some progress but *I* have run out of time struggling with that added job. The shortage has always been time all around, not skill.
I can't envisage a shell of the thing haunting me. 10/
radio free fedi
Taking flack from some who didn't read this thread or ANY of the State of the Station and progress report blogs over 18+ months stating in increasing desperation please bear with me, a lone volunteer and need help!
"WHY DONT YOU/CAN'T YOU JUST", "GIVE ME THE 'SCRIPTS'", weird ableist/classist noise, or misguided Angelina Jolie Hackers saviour syndrome will never illicit a desire to handoff community trust to that kind of hostility. I broke protocol! There's no positive RFF framing for that. 9/
radio free fedi
Cheers to the friends reflecting and helping to shout out community not just "radio" things that have made RFF different, resonate. Things we can endeavour to carry through our art, our work and our advocacy.
In fairness I can't really apologise for the experiment becoming a victim of success because you are here and ripples have been made. Nor should I field abuse for my ph collapsing (none of your business) and compiling no longer being able to wear other duress of which there's plenty.
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radio free fedi
I implore you to take what you hopefully have experienced from this project or the community that rallied and build it into other things you do and demand better from the technocrats or just kick them to the kerb. As independent and marginlised artists and as just good humans we deserve better. Rally communities that use tech don't build tech that makes demands of communities.
I'm proud to have helped any and all that have felt seen, at home, connected with community or supported.
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radio free fedi
Since inception, RFF has spoken in a resoundingly positive voice. It is something many of us need to hear and feel, yet often hard to sustain against web and life factors. It's one of most difficult and exhausting roles I've ever endured.
I hope you might help carry the reigns of music and art chief positivity officer(s) in the feed at least around celebrating independent art. I will need to be less available for this during sunset. This wasn't tech, this wasn't a platform, it was people.
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radio free fedi
Assuming I or you will cancel any existing recurring infrastructure donations, we should still be covered for the transmitter over the sunset period.
For those that have specifically supported me if you might delay cancelling to help through this end period, awesome, but no matter what thank you deeply for trying to include the human backstage in the equation of community service.
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radio free fedi
This isn't just about finances. The community were fast to answer the call for annual infra drives so that at least was never a burden on the human.
I never wanted to ask, find, take staff funding on principle and was able to wear full-time volunteerism beyond what my health could afford. Sadly that debt has very much come due.
The project was always too big for a lone hamster, and informed friends and colleagues who respect my privacy will understand: we've overshot any handover options.
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radio free fedi
The response to my asking for help for over a year, the pivots I made to be accommodating have been all proven unviable structurally, temporally and now personally. All of this has been considered to N degrees and has been quite a weight.
Please do not add to the many weirdly demanding comms I've been hit with during these desperate attempts to salvage the project. Asking at this time why or how or "what can you do" even if you think your intentions are sincere is not helpful.
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radio free fedi
Even though some people might say that RFF is just a radio station, so much more went into our operation than simply running some media streams.
I've worked hard for RFF to be relentlessly pro-artist and positive, when offering artist support of all kinds and when framing critical analysis on struggles and dramas we as independent artsts were facing.
The sad fact of the matter is that RFF cannot sustainably stay in operation despite having put out calls for help throughout 2024.
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