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‘It’s quite soul-destroying’: how we fell out of love with dating apps (www.theguardian.com)

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‘It’s quite soul-destroying’: how we fell out of love with dating apps::For a decade, apps have dominated dating. But now singles are growing tired of swiping and are looking for new ways to meet people – or reverting to old ones

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[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 20 points 1 year ago

Match Group. Pretty much an evil conglomerate of dating apps.

[-] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yep, they own like 25 of the major apps. I even tried match.com around 2016, thinking it would be better than the apps since it was the OG, but nope, same shit just without the swiping, and it costs astronomically more.

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