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[–] [email protected] 74 points 5 months ago (10 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Making a dating app is easy. Getting the users is not.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Easy fix: The user base should be gay dudes

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 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.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 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.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I know about:
Alova

  • License: MPL-2.0
[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

As always someone already thought of it 😂.

I'll take a look.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago

IDK much about it, but this exists:

https://github.com/Alovoa/alovoa

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Could be a good idea to differentiate from exiating solutions.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Duolicious is one. Its user base is mostly 4channers though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If you need machine learning to match people, send me a message lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Forget dating apps. Is there a Lemmy community like R4R? If there is, I can't find one.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Is there a Lemmy community like R4R? If there is, I can't find one.

Just did a search, and there are 3 with none active.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

I know that, and I hate it. Yet, I do not know any other way to meet hot singles in my area (or not in my area).