Issue 1/Radio Basecamp

Parallel Culture

Someone has built a pirate radio into Basecamp. You point OBS at Booth, press Start, and it announces your station over Logos Messaging. No platform, no account, no directory server. Listeners find you through a companion module called the Receiver.

A station is a key rather than a name. Every announcement is signed, and each station carries a three-word fingerprint derived from its public key — something like newborn vocalist uncut — which you tell people out of band so they can check they are hearing you and not an impostor. Rename the station and the fingerprint does not change. You can also broadcast unsigned and anonymous, or sign with a Logos Keycard, where the key never leaves the card and your identity follows you to any machine.

You choose who can find it. Public puts the station on the directory topic every Receiver subscribes to. Private announces on a topic derived from your title and a passphrase and encrypts it, so relays see nothing but a random hash and only the people you gave the passphrase to can tune in. The Tor setting puts a hidden service in front of the stream, so no address appears on the wire and it reaches listeners through NAT with no port forwarding.

Nothing is stored. Discovery runs on a heartbeat every fifteen seconds, and a station falls off every list forty-five seconds after it stops. There is no archive and no back catalogue. A station exists while someone is broadcasting and not a minute longer.

It is a hobby project by xAlisher, not an official Logos product and not audited. Broadcasting needs OBS, MediaMTX, ffmpeg and Tor on the machine, and the delivery module pinned to v0.1.1. Free under MIT and Apache.

github.com/xAlisher/booth-basecamp

Repository read 1 September 2026.