ways you can help and participate
Often folks ask what they can do to help the independent creative community via RFF. That is hugely appreciated but there are a couple caveats that often present.
Often as with so many of us, the caveat is “but I don't have much/regular time”. There is not a lot of availabilty out there for regular and stable time commitments and that's fair.
RFF is a volunteer, quick moving experimental project exploring durable community building in alternative social spaces. Often times we (RFF) aren't really sure if an idea will ever see the light of day proper so do not want to get hopes up advertising for help with it. And/or we (RFF) are also so snowed under that we haven't had the time to make time to try and separate out exact micro tasks for helping.
Here are smaller more digestible ideas, steps, actions we can do to help the community.
We'll update, append, and edit this page as new ideas, projects and tasks take shape. We'll highlight a small task or action or an invite to larger more scoped tasks regularly in micro posts and in our chat.
Don't be overwhelmed by the list. Everyone doing a little thing, ripples big and it can be as simple as taking a moment to make a post in your own words about how or why you like to listen. Or your experience as an artist playing on RFF. It can be the small but mighty effort to drop a kind word to an artist you found via RFF or helping to reach new corners of the verse to instigate more submissions of music, writing and voice.
These are some ideas for relatively quick and low time cost force multipliers for good the community of artists and listeners has shared and spread to date. You can help us all as artists and community to keep growing connections and support.
If there are little things out there that you or others have done or received that are RFF adjacent and we might add to the list, please DM.
Mini Calls to Action:
First and foremost, keep listening, drop-in, discover and hopefully take a moment to follow, drop a kind word, spread the word about or materially support the awesome indie artists you've connected with.
Help get more people listening, maybe do a post in your own words about how you've discovered or connected with artists, listeners, collaborators, community or anything you have liked that might resonate with others. Feel free to mention @radiofreefedi@musician.social and/or tag #radioFreeFedi
More artists and contributors! Are you a music artist, short form writer, friendly voice, and haven't yet submitted? Please do. If you have any artists in your circles and can personally recommend RFF as a fun way to discover and connect with and amazing and supportive community of artist colleagues and community friends, please do!
If you have any capacity for hearing more about behind the scenes and where we might need some help of all kinds including very non technical tasks. Or if you just want some occasional calm and friendly exposure to some of the amazing artists, contributors and listeners of RFF, we have some Matrix rooms as a stop gap and off the feed means of organising.
Fans of the station WeDistribute @hello@social.wedistribute.org are looking to expand their Mixtape and playlist series featuring heavily from the RFF community. These are fun little lists of tracks/artists that are effectively micro reviews and could be built around any theme you can conjure. Reach out to WeDistribute if you'd like to be an occasional curator in rotation or even have some ideas for a one off.
More comfy. The comfy channel has proven to be exceptionally popular. It is very much a subset of the potential catalogue we receive so any help in growing diversity and depth would be well received by our many friends who love and lean on some comfy. If you have listened to the comfy channel and know the vibe and know of any fedi present artists that might fit the brief, please recommend RFF for them to consider submitting music
Station IDs and Announcements. You don't have to submit music to be on your fedi comunity radio and you don't have to be a music artist to drop a station ID. DM if you are interested in doing some voice reads. We have outlines and script ideas to help. We'd love to have many more Station IDs and reads in your style or language. Join the party.
Patron! You don't have to contribute music, word or voice to be a part of the stream. You can help fund RFF infrastructure.
Read the latest state of the station report.
Use our venues for your events. Would you like to hold your listening party, video premiere or live perfromance on our platforms, audio and video with chat? We can make it all quite turnkey for you. Or as a community supporter would you like to host a chat hangout on our video chanel synced to one of the channels or specialty blocks? DM the station!
Make a date to explore a themed block on our Speciatly channel. This is a way we can go a bit deeper and include longer run times from the contributing artists' catalogues since you are opting in for a “genre” adjacent listen. You will hear MANY more tracks that are not on the Min and Comfy channels. Daily block time options and links to their descritpions are on the main site.
While we enjoy the fediverse as a means for micro blogging and some other media and social interactions our primary play methods and the artist support links we happily and agnostically pass along are wholly universal and do not require any fedi presence. Sharing the RFF public website here or anywhere you post or mention is helpful and awesome. It is another great way to help with discoevry and support for our community of independent artists.
DM the station or reach out on our matrix if you might be able to assist as a help team for other artists. Occasionally an interested artist needs a bit of help navigating file conversion, audio meta tagging, transferring, storage etc and it is good if we (RFF) have some friends to ping to see if anyone is avialabe for such small advice or assists to our colleagues and friends. This is informal and friendly. It's also possibly not a bad idea to extend out artist dierctory with services offered in solidarity or more formally as well. The more interaction going on out there in this area will help.
DM the station or reach out on our matrix if you want to help producing events such as video premiere partys, special event a/v packages, and more.
DM the station or reach out on our matrix if you'd like to help with occasional data collection and artist liaison tasks. An example where this will be handy is we're hoping to make our artist directory better and searchable.
Project specific tasks and help requests:
Will be listed here as we seek help in exploring or begin undertaking station project initiatives.
Work in progress as at 06 May 2024.
Thank you for your love and support for independent artists and for helping RFF as we try to catalyse and rally more of that durable community and support.
KEEP SUPPORTING EACH OTHER AND INDIE AND FEDI ARTISTS!
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