Tinder-alternatives for the Fediverse
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Every app is a dating app if you use it wrong enough.
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Not exactly federated, but open source: https://github.com/Alovoa/alovoa
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I want to make an effigy out of the corpse of tinder. I would not use a FOSS version of it.
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People are used to seperate apps for dating I guess. And the matching-concept like on tinder is nice as well if there wouldn't be a big profit-oriented company behind it. It could be a tinder with equal chances for everybody. At least it would be driven with an algorithm, which doesn't have profit as a goal.
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Uh, h-hi~
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Hi (with rizz)
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I understand that and I wish it wasn't the case, idk I feel like point of social media / or at least one of the points of using social media is to share your experiences, what you like or don't like and find like minded people and if lucky enough meet love of your life. Basically what dating apps are for.
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A few weeks ago there was a screenshot going around "I met my wife in a github issue thread".
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I got that one several times too, and saw screenshots of it elsewhere too. Not in a while by now though.
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Let's not clone trash. Tinder sucks because it has no matching mechanism to filter out incompatible people. To find one interesting profile on Tinder I have to swipe about 500 profiles. To get more matches, I risk some false positives and like ~2% of profiles. Then I need to filter the matches in person. Very inefficient, a waste of time.
The opposite of that was OkCupid before Match Group destroyed it.
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I got this message too.
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There is a Mastodon frontend with a Tinder-like interface: https://apps.apple.com/de/app/fedimatch/id6503460577
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This could be a symptom of being corporate-driven. They suggest you incompatible people, because they want you to pay (to get better results). I assume you only tried the free version. I never tried the paid one.
I think this problem could be solved.
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Get a room!
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like, on matrix or something
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Even if you pay they have no incentive to get you to stop paying (i.e. find a partner).
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from the images on the front page, i get the feeling the userbase is tiny
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Cool, didn't know that one. Maybe it's a good first step. Since it's open source, people can work with it and develope it further.
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There's a Foss dating app called alovoa, I think I saw something on the subreddit when I was taking a look at it again a while back about potentially implementing activitypub
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Haha, I don't think those are real users. But yeah, they could have done a better job selecting a pool of stock photos.
