What would a FOSS dating app look like?
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Nah, In person for the win!
having a lot of people on it would be the thing that makes it good.
for real though, here’s my formula to fix a major dating app problem:
- women can swipe men, but men cannot swipe women
- men can view and chat with women who have swiped them
now I can simply look cool, instead of trying to swipe 500 girls for an hour
no for-profit dating app will ever do this, because it means that men are not swiping 500 girls for an hour
95% of your male users would have zero swipes on the app, and then stop using it
and most of the women will swipe on 5% of the men, and also leave because those 5% of men will only respond to like 5% of the swipes they get, so 95% of them get shafted.
and this is why dating apps don’t work. people don’t use them logically or reasonably. dating is all about chasing hot people who won’t give you the time of day and ignoring people who would actually date you because they are not as attractive as the people who ignore you.
95% of your male users would have zero swipes on the app, and then stop using it
and most of the women will swipe on 5% of the men
so it’s the same result as the current tinder system, except im not swiping 500 girls for an hour. yea, it sounds good
the app could give the guy some performance metrics. view count, swipe ratio. he can make tweaks to his profile, a/b test. it could actually be pretty interesting
Maybe add a feature where if someone is chatting with >10 people, they aren’t shown for swiping? I don’t know exactly what the limit should be, but I feel like the apps use ‘hot’ profiles that attract people and make them swipe a lot that won’t lead anywhere.
Unless you have a massive marketing budget, it’s futile. Any such app, and that includes social media in general, needs a massive user base to be viable. And outside of a geeky minority, most people wouldn’t care it’s open source.
The geeky minority who care that it’s open source might be predisposed to liking each other, though, so the user base wouldn’t need to be as big as a general-purpose dating app.
it would work if it was a gay/furry specific app.
I think lots of people would care if it had a fair algorithm. Tinder is hated for several reasons, but that’s probably the main one.
What it would look like is a badly themed badly optimized front end that isn’t in the App store, was recently removed from the Play store, with a rape awful name like CLIT or CL Isn’t Tinder or LibreMeetCute and a nonsense icon. It would rapidly become recognized as the engine used by the huge number of extremely sketchy personals sites that popped up all of a sudden that contain only virtual prostitutes. It would also be the engine that powers Truth Romance. It would have the worst Github issues page in human history.
I have had this idea in my mind of building a privacy-first, open source dating app built on “privacy by design” principles. Still didn’t get to it tho.
I love this in theory. Just needs a big user base.
Is it good?
“David has requested your public key, do you accept?”
How do you think Alice and Bob met?
In an insecure love triangle with Mallory.
I feel like it would be almost impossible for the app ti reach critical mass in any local area
As an experiment - try setting up a dating community on Lemmy - report back with how that goes.
One here:
l4l@sh.itjust.works
Why did I automatically imagine that hot dog gif…
To be fair there is a decent amount of people here who may enjoy that though. Straight males would likely struggle here like most other dating sites.
Do lemmons even need a dating community?
This isn’t a dig at Lemmy users
Does anyone even need a FOSS dating app?
I think they would be run better if the users had a say on how they’re run, so we could all probably use it.
I think it would be mostly men. I like the idea of it though.
Men and trans girls
Sounds like a viable app now that you mention that.
I haven’t tried it, but there is one: https://github.com/Alovoa/alovoa
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Tried it, doesn’t work. Too many bugs. I can’t input a location and it fails to auto-detect so I am just living in cyberspace apparently.
Same. I installed it on my phone but in the end, I’m still stuck with the dilemma if I go through with giving them my data/info or not. At this point, I’d have better luck just loitering around Target and asking someone out.
Exactly this. Since it does not seem to be federated, you’re still forced to give your data to a third party you can’t choose. And this makes the open source aspect a rather marginal benefit, at least for the privacy-concerned end user. Still, I appreaciate the effort.
would be cool for meeting local foss nerds, if theres any
Forget the dating part, an app to find local nerds would be awesome
It’d be great for forming D&D groups.
Hopefully none of that “subscribe to see more matches” bs
Oh, and one of the generic message prompts is “What Linux distro do you use?”
Sorry, this feature is only available for users of Arch Linux
Instead of assessing compatibility I assume it would include ideological purity tests.
