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Are Dating Apps Getting Worse? (www.wired.com)

submitted 7 months ago by karpfenkalender@feddit.org to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 1 points 7 months ago

A little late to the conversation there wired.

Match group killed most dating apps years ago when they acquired as many as possible and turned them all into tinder clones, literally removing useful features, not even including them in "premium" versions.

Hinge was the last to hold on to being "acceptable" to those that used it (I need more profile than pictures so I didn't care for it) but I guess that's changed now too.

Monetizing human needs never ends well... Seeking a partner is a human need and these corpo fucks know it and drooled over the prospect of exploiting it. I gave up on them a few years ago so I'm just staying single I guess.

[–] Naz@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yeah, the dating apps are monetized to all hell, you guys have called it right.

I was on them a decade ago, and I'm classically handsome, mentally stable, good job, etc; went looking for a serious partner with similar life goals, and all I got was catfishing and trolls.

After I subscribed to the premium tier, I began getting messages from real people but I was so disgusted by the transparent greed that I swore off all dating websites and services and went the offline route, meeting my current SO through real life friends at a social event.

Starve the beast, as the conservatives say. Deny them their money.

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

They haven't worked since all becoming for profit, rather than for... dating. Turns out setting people up should really be charity work, not for profit.

[–] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Maybe there should be a fediverse dating app?

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Ah yes. A userbase of 45 global users, all of whom are argueing over linux distros, and none of them will speak one word when a woman walks into the room.