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The Hell of Clay by Roberto Pazzi

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David White 3d ago

Hey ladies. I'm a 43-year-old single man living in Brookshire, Texas! #Single #Looking #BrookshireTexas #Texas #Brookshire #TX

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The Restaurant by Roberto Pazzi

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clew 6d ago

#looking seems like a profile flag and one that should be hard for strangers to search. And yet, some process has to know in order to nudge people together somehow.

Is this an overlap between hosting in the server sense and the human sense? Every couple of weeks servers hosting the Helpful Introductions protocol do a pairwise check to see if they have “looking” members who have liked each others stuff a lot, or liked the same things?

@lorry @screwlisp @strypey

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Green and Gold by Roberto Pazzi

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Lorry 6d ago

@screwlisp @strypey I will read it properly tomorrow, but Bumble is dire at Trust and Safety.

Whitney (Bumble) is sensible in one sense, in that she has seen that dating apps are going nowhere and they have broken themselves with the swipe model - So last I heard, she was going for a more in-person networking and activity friendship model. But I dunno, I am not at all convinced. She's a billionaire anyway, so what does she care?

Computer #dating has a pretty long history of success, and the model didn't change drastically from its invention over 60 years ago (I wrote my first one in 1983, so I was late to the game!) until it had to be adapted for small devices and short attention spans. I imagine there's still space for going back to the old model, and taking it out of the hands of Match Group would be great.

That being said, these days the cool kids are meeting via hashtags and mutual interest site areas - if someone is looking for their perfect Swiftie, Pokemon fan partner, then they are going to look at people with a history of posting and commenting on both of those topics on TikTok (for example), where the interest can't be faked. It's really a very good, naturally made model that a commercial site can't replicate.

I suppose the next move would be for hashtags like #looking or #available to evolve and be properly adopted, then it would be even more in the open. For all I know, they already have! I am somewhat of a dinosaur outside of my own areas :)