The kids are on Discord. I’m in a few servers. It reminds me of the old iRC
days.

Best,
Jeremy

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On Sat, Apr 11, 2026 at 2:53 PM Thorin Teague <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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 That has been replaced by "the socials," which always has someone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.
> >
>

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