Tinder-alternatives for the Fediverse
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My last impression was that alovoa would need a lot of work still. It's also the best thing I've seen so far but it's very buggy unfortunately.
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I don't think control features help much when one of the most basic question that you can ask is "What is your gender and who would you like to date?". As I have already outlined in another comment in this thread, this information has to be shared with the federated network and is already enough to get people into serious trouble should it get into the wrong hands.
Alternatively think about it this way. Would you hand over this kind of information to a total stranger? Would you take on the responsibility of handling data that could literally kill someone if you make a mistake?
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Solvable by requiring verification of every user by government ID?
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What would the matching mechanism do?
Look at your fediverse activity and match people who like the same things as you?Could be interesting but creepy
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Then you’d need some organization with resources to store this data? You’d still need to trust someone to do this correctly.
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I've heard of FediMatch: https://github.com/Lypsilonx/FediMatch
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Just like match and okc you'd have to take a quiz and match against core values. Social media data mining would be a terrible way of matching.
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Looking at their github and they havnt merged a PR since October. Feels a like it might be dead.
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Looking at their github and they havnt merged a PR since October. Feels a like it might be dead.
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Last commit was two weeks ago.
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Dating is a numbers game, so ya gotta go where your preferences are.
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OKCupid was awesome. The questionnaire matched on a bunch of different categories and you could add clarification to the questions.
Bummer it sounds like it's toast. I met my wife on OKC.
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I actually think observing your actual behaviour would be a better more honest way of matching.
And technically it's all public info so it's not technically a privacy issue; they'd get it over activitypub the same as all fediverse platforms already do.But it feels wrong to do.
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Oh, I was more thinking in the context of a centralized service, although technically it should be possible to do this in a federated manner too. I don't think the resources would be an issue, but the liability of holding this data would be. I don't know how that works on sites that currently do this though.
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It would be, if it were comprehensive and applicable to match making, but I don't think for most people that can be gleaned from fedi. Most people only lurk, few even directly follow communities, and the content people do interact with likely does not represent them well unless they put themselves out there like that.
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Well put.
I guess I also don't really know the average users behavior, or more specifically typical fedi behavior of users who would use a matchmaking service.
I'm just highly skeptical of compatibility quizzes, it feels like there must be a better solution.
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How about another type of control: by default your profile is not federated. Then you manually select the instances you trust. And your data getcs shared only with those. Dating usually is kind of local anyway. If i live in australiay I'm likely not interested in matches from the UK. So instances could already serve as some pre-selection based on your region and possibly community type.
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If anything it's the opposite. They want user retention so they have an incentive to show you people that won't work long term.
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i have a preference for big booty goth latinas, where do i go for that??
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There's nowhere near a reasonable number of users on Fediverse to sustain a geo-local dating app. Tinder already has to rate-limit matches so people don't swipe through their entire dating pool in one day.
