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SnotFlickerman ,
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The hard to swallow answer here is this:

Dating apps, like all apps, are majorly funded by giant companies, because there’s no realistic path to scaling up from 100 users to millions of users without a bunch of investment money.

Say I want to create a new, decent app that takes us back to the days of stuff like early OkCupid which was smartly done and actually worked okay.

Well, if it gets any amount of quick adoption, I’ll be going from really low costs to astronomical hosting costs almost overnight. Often, the “checks haven’t cleared” as they say and while you’ve technically been paid, it’s all waiting in escrow or bank transfers or what fucking have you and you have giant bills falling due and no way to pay them

That’s why this happens to every single app under the sun. They’re left making tough decisions and selling out to unscrupulous people.

Because what no one wants to admit is that the funding model to how to make almost anything function on the internet at-scale where millions of people use it is fundamentally broken.

I mean fuck, isn’t that why we’re on the federated splinter-net where people can justify the costs of their small corner of federation, easing the overall load of financial demand?

Corporate internet is broken and they’re chasing ridiculously thin numbers to constantly be making more.

So, you’d probably need some kind of federated solution to not have it be destroyed by corporatized enshittification.

Lost_My_Mind ,

Say I want to create a new, decent app that takes us back to the days of stuff like early OkCupid which was smartly done and actually worked okay.

Ok, I WILL say that.

HEAR THAT GUYS??? THIS GUY OVER HERE IS GONNA GET US ALL LAID!!!

SnotFlickerman ,
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Don’t deny me a GIF of my man Rodney!

https://i.giphy.com/ki1FvyBIf9JqECgLQr.gif

FeelzGoodMan420 ,

Say I want to create a new, decent app that takes us back to the days of stuff like early OkCupid which was smartly done and actually worked okay.

Can confirm - got laid on OkCupid back in the day.

Dark_Arc ,
@Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg avatar

The fediverse as designed is actually pretty inefficient. If it ever were to go to Reddit scale it would melt down.

That’s because there’s effectively no batching for federation currently … every single vote from an instance is forwarded back to the instance hosting the community and must be processed individually. So if you get 500k votes on something even if it’s from 200 servers, the servers hosting the community have to be able to withstand the flood of votes and store the associated data… And that’s just votes.

Worse yet, those votes then get replayed to every single one of those 200 servers one by one. So every server needs 500k vote entries and all the associated traffic … even if half of the servers are just 1 guy looking at cat videos once a month.

Federating actually is way more expensive than just adding another user as designed.

meekah ,
@meekah@lemmy.world avatar

I’m sure if we reach that point, someone will add a method for batching cross-server communication. That’s the beauty of FOSS

fubbernuckin ,

… Eventually…

Here’s a bug on Mastodon that’s existed since 2016 that makes small instances unusable. github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/34

meekah ,
@meekah@lemmy.world avatar

That’s kinda the exact opposite. Not many people want to use small instances, so not many people are interested in fixing something like that. However, let’s say lemmy.world becomes unusable because of too much cross-server communication. That would cause inconvenience to way more people, increasing the likelihood that someone will do the work to fix it.

K4mpfie ,
@K4mpfie@feddit.org avatar

There is Alovoa, it’s FOSS, it’s just that nobody seems to be using it. Closest next user is ~10k km away😂

cows_are_underrated ,

And its a gigantic sausage party.

K4mpfie ,
@K4mpfie@feddit.org avatar

Does that surprise you, given that it’s a project out of the FOSS Space?

cows_are_underrated ,

Absolutely not.

slazer2au ,

Not likely as that is how they make money, lure men in with fake female accounts and make them pay for more swipes, more messages, more prominent messages, read notifications.

Alice ,
@Alice@hilariouschaos.com avatar

boo Try boo it’s a little more like dating social media

D1G1T4l_B4TH OP ,

Have you used it?

Alice ,
@Alice@hilariouschaos.com avatar

Yes. Seems decent it’s like mostly for dating but you have the option to just use it for friends. So that ‘pressure’ so to speak isn’t there.

There’s even a social feed and you can make posts and just talk to other people

D1G1T4l_B4TH OP ,

Just use it. Deleted. It’s completely useless and I can’t find a single person nearby. And now they got my info… Great.

meekah ,
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Idk, I didn’t like it. Might just be the people around here who use it tho. The way the 16 personalities test thingy is ingrained there also kinda rubbed me the wrong way.

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