What would a FOSS dating app look like?
I feel like it would be almost impossible for the app ti reach critical mass in any local area
“David has requested your public key, do you accept?”
How do you think Alice and Bob met?
In an insecure love triangle with Mallory.
As an experiment - try setting up a dating community on Lemmy - report back with how that goes.
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.
One here:
l4l@sh.itjust.works
Do lemmons even need a dating community?
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.
how many straight women do you know that are FOSS?
even among men, how many care about FOSS? like .1%?
I know what Foss is, but I don’t care about it. but i do find it amusing the how superiority complex FOSS people have and how they fail to realize how the average windows/mac users is just going to find that weird and offputting, as they do most foss software.
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?”
I don’t think I’m into dating apps
Instead of assessing compatibility I assume it would include ideological purity tests.
I haven’t tried it, but there is one: https://github.com/Alovoa/alovoa
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.
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.
Allowing you to meet meet people more like yourself!
Sure, why not.
What would it look like? Same as the others, text field for description, pictures, interests.
If it’s foss, I would want to see a https://reproducible-builds.org/ or some other method of verifying the accuracy of the process. Getting no matches would be better than the fake stuff the others do.
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
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.
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
the tinder system doesnt’ show you how 99.9% of women are rejecting you. just like the lottery, the point is the delusion that you might ‘win’ even though statistically, you won’t ever.
if the average user saw that reality, they’d give up. they would not try to improve.
apps can’t fix biological imperatives. all they do is magnify them. i’m a guy who gets matches on apps regularly… most women interpret my profile as the complete opposite of what it says. it’s hilarious. but that’s because people see what they want to see, they don’t see what you literally tell them.
About me: Arch btw
Unlikely. I have always found dating sites pretty uncomfortable.
Even in the best scenarios, there were never any people who shared my interests. Now I’m older/kinda exhausted of it. :3
If I was younger and still trying, I imagine I would want something that felt less like being in a display case, visually. Maybe also making people who didn’t share any of my values or interests unable to swipe.
Literally just a dating app without the hidden algo that keeps people onboard and no payment. It could be federated.
