Comment on Anon tries dating apps

Rooskie91@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• cannedtuna@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Good lord they own basically all the major ones.

  Also all the different “X People Meet” apps, but no Linux People Meet? 😭 /s

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  • Burghler@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    We meet here bro 😘

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  • pmk@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I met my girlfriend on IRC, we’ve been living together for 7 years now. She was trolling people with goatse pics and we started talking about philosophy and poetry etc and then it turned out that she’s a super cute canadian girl. This is usually not the story we tell people when they ask how we met.

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    • Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That’s the most crazy story i have read and the best one probably

      Also, THIS is how you are supposed to meet people online not with dating apps, dating apps just suck and make you choose the most sexy “option” and maybe their interests maybe and if they didn’t lie

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    • whats_a_lemmy@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them

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      • Quantenteilchen@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Hey no kink shaming in the guild!

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    • RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      A girlfriend that trolls people with goatse? lucky bastard

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      • pmk@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        You’d never guess if you just met her, she’s a 5’2 ballet dancer but she knows everything about various serial killers. People are complex, we have many sides.

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    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Holy shit, I didn’t think that was even possible. I can’t let myself start thinking that’s a possibility, I just can’t. That could lead to disaster.

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    • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      This is usually not the story we tell people when they ask how we met.

      Honestly, it’s a way better story than telling people you met on a dating app. And the ones that would be weirded out by the story are probably not people you’d want to spend a lot of time around

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  • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Also all the different “X People Meet” apps, but no Linux People Meet? 😭 /s

    Tbh, isn’t that just Alovoa? I had never heard of it until I saw it on FDroid

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    • cannedtuna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Lmao an open source meet up app. Never heard of it, but interesting to know it exists

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  • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    no Linux People Meet?

    Are you sure there’s no transfemme one?

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• wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  How is that not an anti-trust issue? Each one started as an independent company trying to add value by bringing something new to the table, and they bought them all up to eliminate the competition and enshittified them all with the same profit-gouging algorithms.

  Not to mention the concerted effort they made to make in-person dating a social taboo so that everyone literally depends on the dating apps to find potential partners.

  Back before I gave up on dating, when I was still on reddit, I can’t tell you how many times I heard the same advice. “Don’t approach people in person, nobody wants to be bothered. Just use the apps where you know they want to be approached.”

  That with the systematic minimization of the shittiness of the apps, and the victim blaming “just work on yourself bro, you must be a shit person if you can’t find a partner, so you’d find a partner if you could just stop being a shit person.”

  Looking back, I wonder how much of that was astroturfing by the Match Group marketing department…

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• Banana@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This makes total sense!

  I met my husband on Tinder in 2014, 3 years before consolidation in 2017. When I was using it it was only a joint venture with Match Group

  I also had some success before 2014 on okcupid (initially owned by IAC which used to contain Match Group and has since separated from match group but Match group kept OkCupid) and POF (sold in 2015 to Match Group)

  Makes sense to me why I had a way different experience on dating websites back when I was single compared to my single friends now.

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• 87Six@lemmy.zip ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Fun fact: you can probably guess the ethnicity of Spencer Rascoff, the CEO of Match Group.

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• ramble81@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Feeld is there too. Their matching and like system is very much weighted towards paying not-cheap monthly prices.

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