https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/data-hungry-dating-apps-are-worse-than-ever-for-your-privacy/
Your money or your privacy? In 2024, most dating apps want both. And there’s still no guarantee your sensitive information will be kept safe.
Tbh, maybe someone should try making an open-source dating app.
You know what, being a dev myself that's something I'll try as a hobby project. We'll see how it work out.
Getting women* users is not
There ain't never a shortage of thirsty males haha
Well maybe after ww2 there was a time... But you get the point.
do 'em boys even need apps tho, seems like thats like one group of people who aint struggling to find true love haha
Yuck with the penises and all that? How the hell you supposed to fuck a penis anyway? What're you supposed to do, dock em or something? I ain't going near no gross dick. I mean sure, if she looked hot and I went to pull up her skirt after I had a few drinks in the bar and suddenly there was a dick... Well I don't need to look at that when I'm tapping that ass from behind. It's not like I'm gay or anything though. Sheesh. Weirdos.
Honestly, dating apps are one of the cases for a federated system. Use whatever frontend you want, no one person owns the backend so they can’t sleazily monetize you. Probably would need to be a bit more cryptographic than something like lemmy or mastodon though.
With activityhub gaining traction, I actually think it's possible. You essentially self host your profile, which gets federated around. You swipe left/right, thereby accepting federation from a match of blocking.
This could work.
You know what, being a dev myself that’s something I’ll try as a hobby project. We’ll see how it work out.
That's what heroes do
Depends on how it is used. But I don't think it should be used for the matching process itself though. Maybe to help match interest (tags) between each other, like giving a connection score between two of them, but other than that, I see no other privacy respecting way to use that.
Moreover, on which data would we train on? I don't think there is any anonymized dating app dataset around.
Good idea. Let me know when you are finished so I can summon my army of catfish scammers, porn bots, and data skimmers. After we are break it we will than databreach it and sell all that wonderful data on the dark web.
The situation as it stands now you need a lot of security to run something like this. Which involves a lot of money. Which means you have to charge users. All these wonderful open source decentralized things only work if you can assume some level of good faith.
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Is there a Lemmy community like R4R? If there is, I can't find one.
Just did a search, and there are 3 with none active.
I know that, and I hate it. Yet, I do not know any other way to meet hot singles in my area (or not in my area).