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therealjcdenton ,

Yea it’s a cool app called meeting people IRL, kinda obscure tho

Mango ,

No.

Next question.

hemko ,

Oldschool Runescape

Kolanaki ,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

Grindr. It’s only partly shit.

RIP if you’re looking for women.

hemko ,

Didn’t grindr have recently some shit that they were selling the confidential user data forward?

StarlightDust ,

Dating apps have never been my thing but I think this would be a good fediverse project, maybe linked with something like matrix.

ILikeBoobies ,

Fetlife can get you laid

D1G1T4l_B4TH OP ,

Can’t find an app with that name

ILikeBoobies ,

fetlife.com

homura1650 ,

Fetlife is not a dating app. They have actively not implemented features such as filter by age/gender in order to avoid becoming a dating app. If you are looking to get involved in your local kink community, Fetlife is the answer [0]. For anything else, it is garbage. If you try using it to get laid, you will just be pissing a bunch of people off.

[0] At least for my local kink community. Other areas might vary.

ImminentOrbit ,

I used Bumble to find my now fiance. I didn’t pay for it, but also was patient and treated it like an investment instead of expecting immediate results. Ymmv

BlackPenguins ,

Bumble is terrible for meeting people. Once you match someone they have 24 hours to respond. I’m fine with the woman needing to message first, but if you don’t respond in that 24 hours their match is removed. What if that woman has a life and didn’t open the app that day? Oh but you can spend money to extend that window. So if she’s on vacation yay you get to buy extensions for a week. It’s just a scam.

Voyajer ,
@Voyajer@lemmy.world avatar

Women don’t even have to message first anymore in bumble, they got rid of their main gimmick. They’re just yellow tinder now.

Migmog ,

Ref

BlackPenguins ,

Ah well that’s good. But is the 24 hour window still there?

bionicjoey ,

No idea about Europe but Hinge is the one that I’ve known lots of people have successfully used, myself included, to find a relationship.

Riven ,
@Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I used the Boo app to find my now fiancee. You can talk with people and it has a quasi social media aspect to it that you can also use to chat with more people, I live in a major city and managed to talk to a handful of people on the time I was there, some of those were started by them too. The chatting wasn’t limited iirc it’s a friends/dating app.

Granted I was rated 8/10 on the rate me subreddit so take that as you will.

D1G1T4l_B4TH OP ,

Tried, it sucks.

OddrunAsmundr ,

Fetlife if you’re kinky. You gotta use it to find local events with fellow kinky people, meet up, vet each other. Etc etc.

viking ,
@viking@infosec.pub avatar

If you look good, they all work.

If you don’t, they don’t.

Seriously, the free tier in every app allows for enough opportunities to match with someone. Whether that happens is really a matter of your looks (or well, the photos you’re using).

It’s a shallow world out there.

Tehdastehdas ,
@Tehdastehdas@lemmy.world avatar

Getting lots of matches is useless when you’re looking for a handful of great matches. For that you need a great matching mechanism with thousands of parameters - what OkCupid used to have before Match Group destroyed it.

BlackPenguins ,

Unless you’re match.com where they charge you to like or even message people. Don’t ever use Match. OkCupid has been the most genuine one I’ve seen.

MrMcGasion ,

Just so you’re aware, Match owns OkCupid now, as well as Tinder, Hinge, Plenty of Fish and a bunch of other smaller dating sites. I don’t think they’ve all been ruined as much as Match yet, but it’s probably only a matter of time.

BlackPenguins ,

Well this is depressing to learn.

TenderfootGungi ,

And one of them (Match?) apparently hsd a decency algorithm that matched people on things like religion and politics, but was disabled after being bought out.

yesman ,

A better question is can a dating app be good?

Around 2010, every tech bro that’s creaming shorts over AI today was trying to figure out how to make money behind the fact that everyone had smartphones. But it turned out, that smartphones can’t solve every problem.

Dating I would argue, is just one of those things tech made worse. Never mind how often the damn thing fails, think about the conditions where it would function well. A dystopian world where everything is shallow and operating on incel-math.

And how could it be otherwise? Dating apps are just math people trying to solve for love. This is the plot to a comedy movie, not a business plan.

FartsWithAnAccent ,
@FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io avatar

Plenty of Fish and OKCupid were pretty good once upon a time. I used them in 2016 and most of the dates were alright.

souperk ,
@souperk@reddthat.com avatar

There is Alovoa, it’s open source, still has a small user base, but you don’t have anything to lose…

lord_ryvan ,

Do note that, much like for example Telegram or Snapcraft, only the client is FOSS, not the network all the data is stored on.

souperk ,
@souperk@reddthat.com avatar

That sounds a bit misleading, the server implementation is FOSS too, at any time someone could setup their own instance.

cecilkorik ,
@cecilkorik@lemmy.ca avatar

So it’s not really FOSS at all, it’s just a loss-leader to draw you into the network, trap your data, and then enshittify and monetize as per standard practice.

lord_ryvan ,

It might not be, more than enough people trust Snap and/or Telegram. I’m just putting it out there for the ones that don’t feel comfortable with it.

Mighty ,
@Mighty@lemmy.world avatar

I’m holding the torch for OkCupid. I’ve met my SOs there. Many queer folk, leftists, likes work reasonably well and you even get free “superlikes” once a week. Messages are free, likes are free.

morphballganon ,

and you even get free “superlikes” once a week

… are we using the same OkCupid?

Mighty ,
@Mighty@lemmy.world avatar

not sure? I got one superlike to use for free a week. is that a regional thing? i have never paid for OkC in my life.

inb4_FoundTheVegan ,
@inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world avatar

Well, I know this won’t be useful for a lot of people. But HER is a femme focused app (but open to all queer folk) that is super duper generious with the amount matches and chat it allows.

D1G1T4l_B4TH OP ,

Yeah, I’m not going to cat fish as a girl

inb4_FoundTheVegan ,
@inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world avatar

Okie dokie. Didn’t really think so, but it’s by far the best app I have used with essentially no pay well so I figure I’d mention it for anyone else who sees this thread.

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