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Bumble cuts ~350 employees as dating apps face a reckoning (techcrunch.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Bumble cuts ~350 employees as dating apps face a reckoning::Bumble is the latest dating app to report disappointing quarterly growth in an increasingly tough market.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Why did Bumble have 350 employees in the first place? What does the app even do? I'm old enough to remember Craigslist personals. That was basically a handful of perl scripts and it worked very well, except it needed a bit more moderation to keep out the sex workers, and they ended up shutting it down. I guess Tinder has that swipe left swipe right thing, but no idea how much staff is behind it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Nah RIP Craigslist personals, it was one of the only safeish places to advertise sex work -imo these services should be state-or-community-funded, free AND respecting of privacy, ideally. Maybe it did need more moderation; but even more so it needed less outrage about the useful connections and exchanges of services it enabled. We should always mourn the old web, sure it was flawed like anything else 20 years ago but it was still faaaaaaar better than the google-ravaged wasteland of today.