RFF was a community building victory but in a space that is paradoxically much too wing clipped by a lack of diversity in platforms, an abundance of dramatic fragmentation with poor or intentionally no tools for artists to navigate such waves, whilst simultaneously enduring clout and corpo invasions. A landscape hard to sustain the labour and connections to radiate the vibes and build the connections we deserve.
Perhaps after a pause away from the exhaustion and negativity of the general fedi and maintaining a community project, there may be some space for legacy resources. That ain’t now.
I really liked listening to this radio, especially at work. If you have radio suggestions that are in the same style, that is to say out of the ordinary, they will be welcome! All musical styles are okay for me, don’t hesitate to share.
RadioDroid and https://www.radio-browser.info/
RFF was the best thing I’d discovered on the internet for as long as I can remember. I was gutted to hear about it stopping.
Bandwagon is in development, which is/will be a federated music platform which can integrate with internet radio. You can check out the first instance at bandwagon.fm
In the meantime I’ve been really enjoying the music on Mother Earth Radio, particularly their instrumental channel.
RFF will be missed! For Fedi music you could try https://theindiebeat.fm/ … or this one has mixes rather than radio https://www.audiointerface.org/
Never listened to RFF but I’ll take any chance I get to recommend https://radioislanegra.com/
