MTV died. All the cool, unique artists like off “120 minutes” are now fighting the blandest algorithms imaginable.

We wanted a place to watch weird stuff you can’t see on mainstream channels. So….

Fedi MTV goes live in ONE HOUR.

https://tv.theindiebeat.fm/

#FediMTV #TIBtv #music #nowPlaying #FediTips

The Indie Beat Television

A consent driven 24/7 stream of indie music videos and animation from artists across the Fediverse. See Now Playing info at https://mastodon.social/@tibtvnowplayingbot - Fediwall at https://shorturl.at/CrWD3 - Submit your videos at https://theindiebeat.fm/the-indie-beat-tv/ - CAUTION: Many videos have flashing lights!

The Indie Beat Television

Fedi MTV is LIVE in 25 mins!

Watch & chat with us on the website, or cast to yer TV, or search for “The Indie Beat” on Roku.

In case you miss it, we’ll launch again at 20:00 & 04:00 UTC … for all ye diverse time zone or night owl buddies

https://tv.theindiebeat.fm

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#FediMTV #TIBtv #music

The Indie Beat Television

A consent driven 24/7 stream of indie music videos and animation from artists across the Fediverse. See Now Playing info at https://mastodon.social/@tibtvnowplayingbot - Fediwall at https://shorturl.at/CrWD3 - Submit your videos at https://theindiebeat.fm/the-indie-beat-tv/ - CAUTION: Many videos have flashing lights!

The Indie Beat Television

@meljoann Cool! I've bookmarked that to look at later.

Hello @limebar - the site has an IPv6 AAAA record, but the server isn't responding on IPv6, so I can't see the site. Might want to poke whoever is doing the infrastructure and ask them to fix. 🙏

@dentangle @meljoann @limebar It should say 2a01:4f9:c012:788b::1
@meljoann it's a cool idea. unfortunately artists from across the fediverse is not exactly MTV 120 minutes.
@kolya very true! we are aiming as high as we can on a budget of $0 heheh
it's #electronic hour on #FediMTV right now! GETTINNNN
Second launch is in 20 mins! 20:00 UTC …

Second launch is in 14 mins!

Watch & chat on the website, or cast to yer TV, or search for “The Indie Beat” on Roku.

20:00, then 04:00 UTC

https://tv.theindiebeat.fm/

The Indie Beat Television

A consent driven 24/7 stream of indie music videos and animation from artists across the Fediverse. See Now Playing info at https://mastodon.social/@tibtvnowplayingbot - Fediwall at https://shorturl.at/CrWD3 - Submit your videos at https://theindiebeat.fm/the-indie-beat-tv/ - CAUTION: Many videos have flashing lights!

The Indie Beat Television
@meljoann @_elena oh nice! There’s a TV guide at the bottom even
@holly @_elena heheh we should bring it out in print, old-school!
@meljoann is there a fedi equivalent of Spotify?
The Indie Beat Radio – Discover independent music from artists in the Fediverse.

@meljoann
Love this! I had no idea. Thanks!
@robbielink yayyy! enjoy 🫡 💜
@meljoann
I have no idea what I saw there, but... it's happening and I get to experience it \○/  
@meljoann Congrats! This is so cool!
@meljoann i hope there’s lots and lots of “story behind the tech, the videos, the music” stories so people will understand the awesomeness and want more.
@meljoann i hope there’s lots and lots of “story behind the tech, the videos, the music” stories so people will understand the awesomeness and want more.
@econoprof ooh that’s a good idea! Well there are some interviews / talk bits that are scheduled….

@meljoann Caught a few minutes of this this morning, and the third thing I saw was your "O Supervisor". It was amazing! This really does have the feel of very early MTV (when most of the videos available for them to play were experimental things by the likes of Devo and Todd Rundgren), but better.

And the chorus of "O Supervisor" has been stuck in my head for the past hour and a half. 

@meljoann MTV died over two decades ago. :)
@JanetGrBr @meljoann It was fatally wounded in 1992, when The Real World launched, and died no later than a few years after.
@meljoann excited to see where this goes!
thanks @meljoann for promoting this so heavily today. Without it I would have missed hours of fun and connectedness today. And lots and lots of good music.

@meljoann This sounds _amazing_ - sadly I missed it live. How did it go? Do you think there'll be more?

(So many questions..!)

@clickhere aw no worries Joan! There’ll definitely be more events, and the launch vid will go up online too I’m sure.

We were stunned by the response! The vibes were so nice. There’s basically nowhere for music vids to go these days, so I think we are all feeling this is sorely needed ✨

@meljoann I didn't know MTV shut down. What killed the video star?
@meljoann what an interesting web site! I've spent a lot of today checking out the various feeds and can safely say that there goes yet another chunk of my "spare" time 😁 Really interesting and eclectic stuff!