Data-Hungry Dating Apps Are Worse Than Ever for Your Privacy | Mozilla privacynotincluded
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/data-hungry-dating-apps-are-worse-than-ever-for-your-privacy/
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Dremor@lemmy.world · 74 pts · 2y
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.
tsonfeir@lemmy.world · 59 pts · 2y
Making a dating app is easy. Getting the users is not.
applepie@kbin.social · 23 pts · 2y
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.
eldesgraciado@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 2y
Easy fix: The user base should be gay dudes
applepie@kbin.social · 5 pts · 2y
do 'em boys even need apps tho, seems like thats like one group of people who aint struggling to find true love haha
tsonfeir@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
They should try men
blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
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.
pennomi@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 2y
recursive_recursion@programming.dev · 23 pts · 2y
I know about:
Alova
Dremor@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
As always someone already thought of it 😂.
I'll take a look.
guyrocket@kbin.social · 17 pts · 2y
IDK much about it, but this exists:
https://github.com/Alovoa/alovoa
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 2y
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.
Dremor@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Could be a good idea to differentiate from exiating solutions.
themurphy@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 2y
Keep us posted pls.
Dremor@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Will do, but don't expect anything for at least a few month. 😆
eldesgraciado@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y
If you need machine learning to match people, send me a message lol
Dremor@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
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.
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social · 4 pts · 2y
That's what heroes do
RarePossum@programming.dev · 4 pts · 2y
Duolicious is one. Its user base is mostly 4channers though.
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 2y
otter@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 2y
Most of the details are things that you might already know, or assumed was happening, but the article is a helpful resource for links, evidence, citations, and summaries
Technus@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 2y
Forget dating apps. Is there a Lemmy community like R4R? If there is, I can't find one.
FutileRecipe@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Just did a search, and there are 3 with none active.
ginerel@kbin.social · 11 pts · 2y
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).