FediVision Announcements

Here are the ten highest-voted entries to #Fedivision2024, from top spot to tenth, as announced by @vote earlier today!

1️⃣🥇 Misaligned Aardvarks by @keefmarshall of [NOTH] The Island of Nothing
2️⃣🥈 The New Rage by @negativeplayers of [NRCI] New Rage City
3️⃣🥉 All Zombies Go To Heaven by @dgar of [DIZZ] Dizzy Corp
4️⃣🤝 Site-23 by @fabi of [BLAH] Blahaj Cuddle Coalition
4️⃣🤝 Synthetic Synchronicity by @revengeday of [CYBE] Cyberpunks
6️⃣ Tap My Toes by @elsemusic of [CABA] The Cabaret Republic
7️⃣ Mare by @stephan with @MyLoFy of [RAIL] Lost Railroad Valley
8️⃣ Face the Fire by @simonvey of [TAUS] Die Tausend Lande
9️⃣Living The Dream by @sknob of [RUGG] Rugged scrublands
🔟 Versio by @cobalt of [COBA] Cobaltia

Congratulations to all! #Fedivision

#Fedivision2024 is wrapped and done! This instance and https://fedivision.party have been slipped into quiescent mode. We hope you’ve had fun participating this last month. Please continue to follow this account for further #Fedivision events.

@bittersweetdb Agree, it’s not ideal. The alt text was too long for one toot. Probably depends a lot on the mobile Fedi client whether it’s usable.

@GothAndy I copy and pasted song titles and faction names so they are typo-for-typo compatible!

@GothAndy Lol, I mistyped it as “Croydon” until I noticed how the submission was spelled. Guess I shouldn’t have!

I’ll fix the name in post. Four-letter code will remain the same.

Here are the four-letter codes of all entrants! (machine-readable in alt text)

These are your factions (fictional countries you represent), not your artist or user name. Ask me if you’ve forgotten your faction, lol.

ALT

Musicians, this year we are piloting an early-release scheme: you can also release your entry (or maybe you have an extended album mix of it that’s more than 3m59s long?) on your own site (Bandcamp, Soundcloud, Faircamp, whatever) as soon as voting opens this Sunday.

Musicians: when voting opens at 13.00 UTC Sunday, you’ll want to drum up as many votes from the fedipublic for your entry as possible. Advertise the four-letter voting code for your song far and wide! (See: https://fedi.vision/@announce/posts/314228670566244120/)

We hope you’re all as excited as we are about listening to the 72‼️ songs featured in #Fedivision2024 this year. The playlist will be live at https://fedivision.party two days from now, this Sunday, and run for the following week. You can also listen on the @radiofreefedi popup channel. This is when listeners can vote for their favourite songs by messaging the vote bot at @vote! Stay tuned for details. #Fedivision

Submissions for #Fedivision2024 are CLOSED! Thank you to the more than 70 musicians who have fielded an entry this year.

Take a breather! The Fedivision elves will spend the next week reviewing the entries for eligibility, building the streaming site, getting the voting bot cranked up. Then voting by you, the public, will start in one week, on Sunday 19 May!

#Fedivision

Three hours to go! Submissions will be turned off at 13.00 UTC _sharp_ because that's 11 pm in my time zone and I'll be tired and grumpy from staying up hoping to see the Aurora Australis and seeing nothing. Get your entry in with plenty of time because you don't want the inevitable Wordpress crash to be your undoing! #Fedivision #Fedivision2024

#Fedivision2024 Administrivia: Please keep your download links active until 19 May 2024; there are a lot of entries and it takes time to download them all! #Fedivision

#Fedivision2024 Administrivia: We’ve started to download submissions from the links you gave. A few links are not working. We will message you if there is a problem. Please PLEASE make sure you can receive DMs from this account. It would be horrible if your submission couldn’t be included because we couldn’t download it. #Fedivision

A couple of days left to get your #Fedivision2024 entries in! As of this morning there were 43 submissions, the same as last year, so this should be our biggest year ever! #Fedivision

@mxtthxw Downloading hasn’t started just yet, so the edited version will be what we see. Will DM you in the unlikely event there is a problem.

@yours_truly No, please don’t. Fedi servers transcode the heck out of media and I don’t trust it not to butcher the attachment.

#Fedivision2024 Administrivia: People are asking where they can upload their entries. These are acceptable (list not exhaustive):
• Dropbox share link (trick: change the dl=0 to dl=1)
• Ditto OneDrive, iCloud, Google Drive
• Ditto etc etc your favourite sharing service
• Prerelease share link to private track on Bandcamp
• Ditto Soundcloud
• On your NAS if you know how to port forward

Some of these can, at best, pop up a web page with a Download button. That’s OK. We will cope! 😌

@SkylarkDuquesne @RinostarGames Something like a Dropbox* link, or a download link to a private copy of the file on your Soundcloud/ Bandcamp page. Realistically I’m going to have to paste the URL into a browser and press a Download button, and that’s good enough.

Not attached as media on a post by your Fedi account! Because then you’ll have made the song public before voting opens.

* Or Google Drive, iCloud, Pastebin, etc.

@FediTips

@FediTips Thanks for the shout-out (and for MastoDDoSing our server! Lol. It’s ok now)

#Fedivision Administrivia: If you need to discuss anything with the organizers or add something that you couldn’t say on the form or you’ve got any questions at all, send us a DM here. If you block DMs from non-followers, best to follow this account so you don’t miss messages from us.

#Fedivision2024

@ScottHuehnerkrisp is correct, we will fetch the file once and host it for the duration of the contest. @skye

#Fedivision Administrivia: if you make a mistake submitting the form at fedivision.party, or have to update the link, just resubmit it with the corrected or updated details. We’ll delete the old entry from the submission database, leaving only the new entry. #Fedivision2024

#Fedivision2024 is open to submissions! (A couple of hours early because Wordpress, amirite?)

Musicians: you’ve got one more week to finish your #Fedivision entry. The form is live, and you can fill it in right now.

Enter here: https://fedivision.party/

Listeners, mark 19 May in your calendars, the date when you can hear all the entries.

@Langile is right, lyrics are a field on the form you fill in at submission time. Songs aren’t posted on the Fedi as media; they are hosted on fedivision.party and you’ll use a web browser to stream them. The lyrics will be published on the same page. @ScottHuehnerkrisp

🚨 Two week alert 🚨

Submissions for the #Fedivision2024 song contest are due Sunday 12 May at the latest.

The form will be active from 5 May.

As always, more detail at https://fedivision.party

#Fedivision

This year, we are pleased to announce that Radio Free Fedi @radiofreefedi will be offering a pop-up channel during voting week, where you can listen to Fedivision 2024 entries on repeat.

Entrants, you will be asked at submission time if you’d like your song shared with RFF. This is _opt in_; we know you don’t all love RFF. The Fedivision site at https://fedivision.party/ continues to host all entries and listeners can stream on demand from there.

#Fedivision #Fedivision2024 #RadioFreeFedi

@trebach Thanks, that’s really helpful. Will discuss with the other organizers.