Notices by radio free fedi (radiofreefedi@musician.social)

FEDI FRIENDS ASSEMBLE! We're live and chat is on for Catching Up with working artist couple @shannoncurtis and @hilljam

They're discussing the new 80s kids project, building a new live show and hopes to foment joy. Also much less serious caffeinated fun, questions fielded, Jamie a cappella etc.

https://party.radiofreefedi.net

Check their rewards if you have the means to help fund their new project or just come along to fuel art and fun among friends!

https://shannoncurtis.net/#fundraiser

#fediwave #livestream

After a week of doing lives on *other* platforms, here's a great chance for the rest of us to see the tidy kitchen of some amazing artists, I mean, help fuel a great project and get together in our virtual space for some fun hanging out.

Let's help Shannon and Jamie finish their project fundraising telethons strong with a fedithon. Material support is grand but being there for mutual motivation and joy is also rocket fuel. Bring questions and some good vibes!

https://party.radiofreefedi.net

#fediwave

And the evergreen reminder of the power you have to help keep the world and the fedi filled with wonderful wild and weird independent art.

If you enjoy something you hear, read or see do try to take a moment to drop a kind word to the artist. The word itself, the effort and resonance are all rocket fuel for our creative cousins.

Material support for our creative friends is also amazing, but even more of us can afford a kind word and that rocks huge!

Keep rocking the feeds with that vibe.

Hello friends. Just our recurring note that we don't know what the weekend entails for you but hope our community of artists and friends can help get you through it as a healthy distraction, calming focus, or pure enjoyable discovery.

Do you need it eclectic? Super comfy? Extra loud? We got you across FOUR channels of independent music and spoken word.

https://radiofreefedi.net

Keep lifting each other up and stay awesome out there.

#radioFreeFedi #music #community #radio

In the spirit of #community, comraderie, #joinIn and #beYourOwnPlatform we're keeping the end of year series of live events and hangouts going.

More distributed this year like recent series, with no single marathon 😴.

Opportunities to be together quietly, or festively loud for anyone needing a virtual crew this time of year and friendly fun for all.

If you have an idea/plan for an original/consented stream please *DM* and we'll align you with a host venue if needed.

#fediwave #radioFreeFedi

Ahoy friends hope your mid-week is approaching tolerable.

There are brand new sounds available for you from:
@MOULE
@fluffy
@rybson
@CyberpunkLibrarian
@lehto
@ferociousdesigns

with a lovely sunset station ID from your pal @bgm

And welcome to RFF:
@superlinguo

All channels and playlists adjusted and shook.

Keep lifting one another up out there.

listen and submit sounds:
https://radiofreefedi.net

#radio #music #radioFreeFedi

Impromptu office hours don't seem to be enough. We'll have more motivational power with a bit more notice and structure.

Part organising meeting, part artist support network, part mutual motivation for projects small and large, part stitch and bitch...

Global organising is a pain, but timezones be damned, let's do this.

#mutualMotivation #artists #musicians

The venue will be Jitsi. It requires no login for participants, is browser based for almost anyone and you can text type if you do not want to be on audio or video and a friendly colleague will relay into ther audio for you.

Forums, text platforms etc etc. we have them, but personable direct comms might be best for moving fast and empathetic impact. Move fast, fix things?

I know there are many opinions of platforms. I hope this will be as accessible as possible with what we have to work with.

First meeting will be:

Friday 15 Nov
2300 CET
2200 UK/UTC
1700 NYC
1400 LA

at: https://meet.jit.si/moderated/b94ee45941947b820faf35db51c3bbfde9f3d2cf76e154341de3758fcbc98dfb

Federated Independent Artists For Mutually Assured Creation?

Yeah, I opened a can of worms for Monty Python reference jokes with the slug name of this community initiative.

Hoping it's energising to get folks listening to help other colleagues power through and hopefully keep creating and building their individual things. As opposed to a more central conduit wearing or trying to direct many things, build many things while attempting positivity for all at all times.

Scroll up for meeting info.

As RFF sunsets the streams and considers how to be a less labour and comms intensive conduit for creative support of each other let's lean on more distributed positivity power and explore that as a force multiplier collectively.

Looking forward to some diverse voices and experiences plotting with love how to help foment mutually assured creation with two fingers in the air to the destructors of culture, voice and our energies.

Let the goodwill of the RFF banner and ethos continue to rally us.

Now's not the time to demand more work. Again, no "script" to just "run" RFF.

Agency, consent, deferring to artists wishes, building community, trust and safety, artist support, platform review, advocacy, vibes are not in the code. The database is irrelevent.

There are costs, timing, consent, decoupling to consider what of RFF might be durable, but much has intentionally and by design already been in the playlists and the artist directory. The legacy is community not a husk of a thing 11/

So let's celebrate the ethos and normalisation of agency and consent and as direct as possible artist support we've embraced.

Another behind the scenes effort was trying to get that ethos into other projects out there and in the advocacy and support for many adjacent initatives some of you may have felt.

Sure none of that is required for an audio stream. I argue it is needed to better lift up artists and improve respectful actual empowering discovery layers, not more silos and skimmers.

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Please do keep following and submitting.

This account will remain a community advocate and conduit after a post holidays fedi break after 2 years of clocking in 7 days /wk. A patron is securing the domain so no donut can yoink it and leaves options for non audio legacy to be discussed LATER.

Idea guys, I need some oxygen as there's heaps moving parts to plan spin down while operating. Any assistance putting positive in the feed for artists while this all happens much appreciated.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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