Facebook is a god fucking awful replacement for the 313 hyperreal list. I can't bring myself to delete my facebook because of friends and family, like everyone else. I've got more Detroit connections there than I do through this list. But it's just a terrible, terrible place that somehow gets worse every year. Like a train wreck, you don't want to stare but you can't look away, it just keeps sinking lower and it's mortifying but it also makes you curious what its rock bottom is going to look like. Whenever it one day hits it.
I read an article that Facebook deleted 3 planets worth of fake accounts in 2023. That's kind of a problem... one of many. On Sat, Apr 11, 2026 at 5:16 PM Jessie McLaughlin <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11 Apr 2026, at 15:36, kent williams <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 313 Admin here. Yes the list is moribund. > > Part of the emptiness here is that a lot of the music people actually in > Detroit have gone away. Partly because of flame wars and hurt feelings years > ago. > > Internet mailing lists were a lifeline to me back in the day. And they are > also unmediated, and barely moderated, direct communication. > > That has been replaced by "the socials," which always has someone between you > and who you want to talk to, trying to profit from your interaction. > > So if you want this to be an active mailing list, post messages, write > replies. >
