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Have you ever tried an open source dating app?
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this post was submitted on 09 Aug 2023
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Dating apps are toxic as it is, and the fact that most of them are basically days mining operations at this point makes it even worse (this also heavily impacts the overall ux). I have a friend who has worked for multiple dating app companies and it sounds awful.
I think an open source one that respects user privacy would be amazing, but honestly would likely be useless, as barely anyone would use it because people don't really care about privacy, and select dating apps purely based on user volume.
In addition, and although this is gradually changing, tech and therefore tech-related interests such as data privacy and FOSS are still overwhelmingly dominated by cishet white men, so I can't imagine such an app having even the most basic, binary requirements in terms of diversity.
I was with you until the unsourced claim that tech is dominated by cishet white men. In California nothing could be farther from the truth
I am not sure how reputable Zippia (or other sources) are when it comes to statistics but if accurate and similar 2022 the tech industry is still mostly men and caucasian.
I wasn't able to find statistics on sexual orientation. There are a lot of companies vagluely bragging about how inclusive they are and not much in the way of stats.
From your link, 73% are men, 62% Caucasian, so roughly 45% are Caucasian non-Latin men
And that's not including orientation
Yeah like I said I wasn't sure where to get information on orientation.
I'd be curious how those numbers overlap with average dating apps and match statistics.
I'll admit it's anecdotal, but it is absolutely my experience having worked in tech for 15 years.
Maybe "dominated" is an extreme word, but I would put money on "over-represented".
Having worked in tech in California, I would say the opposite. Most of my coworkers were immigrants, and only happened to be white males if their origin country was in Europe (and only if their ancestors happened to be from there as well, my boss was Persian Swedish)
But I also worked with people from East Asia and South Asia as well, a lot of women and LGBT people.
It must be a regional thing, where other states are just a lot more white so you see more white people
With more and more people leaving mainstream sites like Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook I could see not having to login with another social media platform being what drives people towards a privacy focused dating app even if the actual privacy portion is more of an after thought for most users.
This is really what I'm hoping for. Threads has not launched well, Twitter is on the brink of collapse, Reddit is in the midst of enshittification, and Facebook is only used by old people.
Tiktok, Snap, and Insta are still absolutely huge, but there is a definite pick up in pace of people adopting the fediverse. There is hope.
But there are only a handful of apps out there and they are basically the same ones owned by the same company. These apps are shitty for all genders, albeit for different reasons, so an open source, non-profit app could be an actual alternative for those who are disappointed by the existing apps if it manages to address these problems.