• Dremor@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    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.

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        6 months ago

        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.

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            6 months ago

            do 'em boys even need apps tho, seems like thats like one group of people who aint struggling to find true love haha

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            6 months ago

            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.

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      6 months ago

      Honestly, dating apps are one of the cases for a federated system. Use whatever frontend you want, no one person owns the backend so they can’t sleazily monetize you. Probably would need to be a bit more cryptographic than something like lemmy or mastodon though.

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      6 months ago

      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.

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        6 months ago

        Will do, but don’t expect anything for at least a few month. 😆

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      6 months ago

      You know what, being a dev myself that’s something I’ll try as a hobby project. We’ll see how it work out.

      That’s what heroes do

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        6 months ago

        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.