radio free fedi - sounds from the Fediverse to the universe

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 souless algorithms. We want to foster organic discovery and discourse. We want to generate support for fedi artists on the platforms and methods of their choice, no judgement. Support 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 cleaned for good data and imagery.
• We add an artist support link so you know where to go to help each other.
• We add consented public fedi link so you can interact with, promote and share the artists you find.
• We add artists' license and permission to celebrate agency and consent and again to foster good communication for support and collaboration.
• Provide discovery options for independent fedi artists who, like may of us, find promotion a bit challenging or uncomfortable. The classic fedi LOVES indy 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 community play RFF and support fedi artists please reach out.

Stop gaps like Bandcamp playlists on third party tracking sites, hyper open methods with poor discovery and walled garden corporate streaming platforms 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.

Admin Privacy Ethos

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 support fedi artists by passing on their preferred license since attribution and consent are paramount. 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 to talk amiable terms if you would like to use their work for your project. Support fedi artists!

Fediquette:

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.

Keep the fedi weird and wonderful! Enjoy.