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‘It’s quite soul-destroying’: how we fell out of love with dating apps (www.theguardian.com)

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‘It’s quite soul-destroying’: how we fell out of love with dating apps::For a decade, apps have dominated dating. But now singles are growing tired of swiping and are looking for new ways to meet people – or reverting to old ones

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[-] iopq@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago

Dativerse when? Seems like this is ripe for disruption by a free solution

[-] 0x0@programming.dev 10 points 10 months ago

There's this pleroma instance and this github project.

[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 9 points 10 months ago

I've thought about it before. The thing is with all the images getting loaded so much it would get expensive quick.

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I think the bots and scammers would pose a much bigger problem

[-] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 5 points 10 months ago

And wait til you see the pool of actual candidates.

[-] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Easy solution: date the bots and scammers!

[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 1 points 10 months ago

I think those could be dealt with, but just the sheer bandwidth of someone loading 3-10 images per profile and then rapidly flicking through them and onto the next one...

The storage costs would be one thing, but the bandwidth of that would be another entirely.

As much as I'd like to think that people would donate, I've found the majority of people to be pretty cheap and unwilling to donate money for something they can get for free.

[-] iopq@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Yet Lemmy exists right now with videos and everything

[-] qaz@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

I think most major instances only allow linking to videos and won't allow you to directly upload it.

[-] imgprojts@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Yes, why can't Lemmy just work for that?

Just create a "City Nama, M4W/M4M/W4W/W4M.MM4W...etc"

That would work no?

[-] iopq@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

No, because newer or more upvoted is not better. The way Lemmy is set up for news makes it bad for leaving a page up for your profile and getting people to look at it over time

[-] Texas_Hangover@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

There's no women on Lemmy tho.

[-] nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz 8 points 10 months ago

Not with that attitude

[-] imgprojts@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Anyone can be a woman with the right leg and penis tuck strategy LOL.

[-] wildwhitehorses@aussie.zone 6 points 10 months ago

It turns Into hookups and sexually explicit pics if reddit was anything to go by. But if it was for relationships not just hook ups, I'd like it.

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