It somewhat is for some people. Like where are you going to meet people of the opposite gender? I don't think most women want to be hit on at work, gym, grocery stores, whatever. Men are starved enough for attention that many of us will appreciate any, anywhere, anytime, but I'm not into guys.

We need a real-life amulet of Mara tbh.

My experience using Bumble was great. I treated it as a background task that I want expecting immediate results from. When I was killing time, I'd swipe instead of using socials. When I matched, I'd chat briefly to see if she seemed ok, but then quickly asked to meet. Found my wife using it. My adult daughter found someone on Hinge and he's great. I'd recommend trying apps to everyone looking.

anti-trust

As if that were a thing anymore.

Someone needs to patch that hole but we know the current government won't...

Absorbing other companies is illegal under anti-trust

Huh?

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Moderation would be a nightmare, especially since Lemmy is used within many jurisdictions.

From my tests, it is full of fake bot account, bugs (my account simply vanished, twice, without reason), and moderation is basically nonexistent.

None of my 30+ interactions was with a genuine human, all of them were crypto scams, or similar scams.

It comes from a good idea, but god it is badly done.

For now.

IIRC, Pepsi and Coca-Cola are not owned by the same parent umbrella corporation. But you are generally right. Again, IIRC, there are like six companies that own something like 85% of brands in grocery stores.

Pretty much. Pepsi and Frito lay are one thing now.

As others have noted, they benefit from you being a continued customer - not finding a forever match. What better way to achieve that then never letting you match a real human at all?

Most of these platforms operate by showing you profiles of others, and showing them profiles of others, and requiring some kind of mutual match to start a conversation. I very much doubt any of these services create bot accounts to do this, and to be fair, they don't need to. The bots are created by scammers hoping to run a scam on lonely people.

The better apps do things to remove bot accounts. Hinge, for example, doesnt have many bots atm ime. Tinder, meanwhile, has been losing marketshare for the past several years and is becoming more lax about policing bots (not that it was ever particularly stringent...) in order to inflate user numbers to show to their shareholders.

People tend to match with bots because the bots will try to match with basically anyone, and because the profiles are made with pics of hot people.

For anyone who has adopted an effective strategy in dating apps, bots are not a problem. You can identify bots quickly and easily because bots don't go on dates. So if you match with someone cool, ask them out not long after you match. Most people who are actually using a dating site to find a partner (long term or otherwise) want to go on dates, so this is normal and expected. Any effective strategy minimizes long, drawn out conversations with people (since these convos almost always go no where anyway, even with real people), which is the opposite of what scammers want (finding people desperate and lonely enough that they will make an emotional connection with someone they have never met in real life).

But the biggest problem people have with bots isnt actually getting scammed, but rather, the emotional turmoil of seeing the notification that you got a match, then realizing it was just a bot. This can be effectively delt with by getting more human matches by becoming more attractive and getting better pictures to show off this attractiveness, and having modes outside of OLD to get dates so your whole romantic life isnt caught up in the internet (which, btw, is also attractive)

It's not technically independent since Badoo (owned by Bumble) is a very popular dating app too. Those two apps/companies have a weird history (Badoo's owner funded Bumble), but Bumble was also started by an ex-Tinder employee.

And looking at their Wikipedia entries, Bumble seems to be publicly traded with Blackstone owning a significant portion of the company. Bumble also bought Fruitz (another dating app) a few years ago.

And kept in business by a thriving community of convention-attending Republicans.

Publicly traded is even worse tbh

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The problem is meeting ppl organically is impossible now because we've been priced out of 3rd spaces. Ppl can't afford $15 beers or $300 concert tickets.

The proof lies in them not bothering to ask, "Why did you reject this person?" If they actually took note, they would zero in on your type immediately and send you only people of that type and you'd match within weeks. They don't want that lol. They want you to hang around...

Yeah it's one of those cases where basic material interest ought to cast suspicion on the apps in my view.

Can you point me in the direction of these failed attempts? I'm tempted to try something similar and would rather learn from others' mistake first.