Remembering Radio Free Fedi
Remembering Radio Free Fedi
Radio Free Fedi was one of the greatest artist projects to ever hit the network. With an unprecedented ethos and a fanatical approach to building and supporting the music community, it became an institution. Today, we remember and honor RFF.
It's easy to find fans. It's impossible to find volunteers. This is the only alternative to what's been termed "enshittification", which is just corporatization of general audience media. Only three outcomes exist for media: either it stays extremely small and never gains an audience so that it never exceeds the initial infrastructure, it shuts down because there are never volunteers or enough money in donations to employ anyone, or it becomes corporate and profit seeking in order to employ people and stay live.
Only the third of those can be defined as being successful, and it is immediately related to the term coined by Doctorow.
That's a self-fulfilling prophesy that the people that want to turn such projects into profit seeking entities like to tell themselves.
There are many long running projects that directly contradict it though. Not everything needs full time employees.
I was sad to hear that it shut down. I was just about to consider uploading my music there. Unfortunately I don’t have the resources to host it on my own so couldn’t really contribute on that end.
You might want to check out Bandwagon. It's ActivityPub-based, and you can use it to submit your music to The Indie Beat Radio: https://bandwagon.fm/