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?
This isn’t a dig at Lemmy users
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.
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.
Stupid question, why is there not something like totally anonymous dating without any data shared on online platforms? My only answer: Maybe this would get abused.
Absolutely. Just look at Roblox. Not exactly a dating platform but that’s already shite.
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.
It is very simple and few people, but it does work.
deleted by creator
would be cool for meeting local foss nerds, if theres any
Forget the dating part, an app to find local nerds would be awesome
It’d be great for forming D&D groups.
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.
This is very heteronormative and gender binaried. Queer people exist and date.
That said, anecdotally, from the handful of women I’ve talked about this with: many don’t like making first moves on these apps.
Using dating apps is a skill, and if you haven’t been practicing sending messages you’re going to be bad at it. The vast majority of first messages I got from women were “hey”. Trash tier. Probably because they just haven’t done it very often.
This is very heteronormative and gender binaried
it’s an idea meant to address a problem which is specific to the heteronormative gender binaried online dating experience. it probably wouldn’t do anything to improve other dating configurations
Gay perspective:
You must have a face pic of you within the last decade first. After that, anything goes.
Ads are reduced from appearing once every 5 taps to once every time you launch the app. At most. Go away. My hands are busy. That’s why I’m here.
If you use a VPN, you never see ads, and if you route porn traffic and Tiannamen square footage you get free membership forever.
i don’t mind holding back the face reveal until after a chat and vibe check. it makes sense given how many men want to minimize the risk of being seen by coworkers, especially in more conservative societies. but i hear your perspective from people a lot also
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?”
Sorry, this feature is only available for users of Arch Linux
Is it good?
I love this in theory. Just needs a big user base.
It claims to have 18k users. I didn’t see their criteria for “active”, though.
My wife wouldn’t be thrilled…
Well, if we weren’t doing it together.
Instead of assessing compatibility I assume it would include ideological purity tests.
About me: Arch btw
About me: Arch btw
Again and again at infinitum. After some time elitism will rise in such a forum.
Unless you have a massive marketing budget, it’s futile. Any such app, and that includes social media in general, needs a massive user base to be viable. And outside of a geeky minority, most people wouldn’t care it’s open source.
The geeky minority who care that it’s open source might be predisposed to liking each other, though, so the user base wouldn’t need to be as big as a general-purpose dating app.
I think lots of people would care if it had a fair algorithm. Tinder is hated for several reasons, but that’s probably the main one.
I don’t think I’m into dating apps
