It's just a big game of Monopoly except they're allowed to trick us into thinking they haven't dominated the board yet. What a joke.
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Haha exititis meets romance. Plus let's not forget that now the dating sites are flooded with Bowkys and scammers.
It's one giant database with different filters for each website.
Other than privacy concerns, I dislike the consumption aspect. I see them swiping and it looks like they're shopping. I know some people have found meaningful relationships on Tinder, but I can't get over it.
I wonder if so many using it almost as the default way of dating makes it harder to find someone for those who want to avoid it.
I wonder if so many using it almost as the default way of dating makes it harder to find someone for those who want to avoid it.
That absolutely does happen. They've done a lot of astroturfing on social media to discredit the idea of meeting someone in person organically. They created this stigma that people who try to do that are "creeps", when that's how nearly everyone found their partners until about twenty years ago...
They must be so happy having facilitated introducing so many people to their true love.
...really? That's your takeaway from this?
I’m sensing a bit of /s
Probably with shared fake profiles, too.
And they have made the apps intentionaly worse, because a successful dating app deletes its users.
Yeah it's one of those cases where basic material interest ought to cast suspicion on the apps in my view.
Federated dating app when?
I think it can be replaced with the group chat in matrix.
There no point in making dating app for 5 users.
OKCommune?
okcommie
OKComrade - we ONLY swipe left
Our date
When someone wants to moderate it.
Hint: ain't nobody want that
Moderation would be a nightmare, especially since Lemmy is used within many jurisdictions.
I wonder if they have an eugenics agenda too?
Knowing Epstein, he probably had a hand in this too.
Yeah, can't help but notice how a lot of their subsidiaries try to pigeonhole people into racial categories...
Makes perfect sense! How many companies would you expect to own all the popular dating sites? 5? 10?
Of course not! There should only be one company controlling entire markets, it's the American way 🤡
Yep. it's essentially a ridiculous, yet somehow legal racket.
And they convinced several generations that using them is necessary for dating.
It somewhat is for some people. Like where are you going to meet people of the opposite gender? I don't think most women want to be hit on at work, gym, grocery stores, whatever. Men are starved enough for attention that many of us will appreciate any, anywhere, anytime, but I'm not into guys.
We need a real-life amulet of Mara tbh.
Except third spaces have been systematically dismantled by capitalist interests, and the dating app industry's astroturfing on social media has done a lot of damage to the perceived validity of meeting someone in person organically.
You can't just say dating apps are necessary because there's nowhere else to meet people and ignore the fact that that very problem is socially engineered. It's manufactured scarcity.
Like if nestle were to poison a town's water supply so that they could sell more water bottles. After buying out deer park, dasani, and aquafina. And patenting the idea of selling water in bottles. You wouldn't say "actually it's necessary to buy their water bottles," you would say "that's fucked up and should be illegal."
The wildest part is that all those apps in post basically useless, even if you pretty — girls there in free market basically, where they can choose anyone who messaged them, there no point for them to seek attention first.
And in just a minute after registering on grindr I got hit on multiple times. So yeah, I guess I'm gay now.
Congratulations, I guess.
Absorbing other companies is illegal under anti-trust, but taking a company as a subsidiary is not, which is the workaround for anti-trust. It gives the false illusion of competition being available.
anti-trust
As if that were a thing anymore.
Someone needs to patch that hole but we know the current government won't...
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