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Dating on the Fediverse: Alovoa - Meet new, exciting people!

https://lemmy.ml/post/71396

Dating on the Fediverse: Alovoa - Meet new, exciting people! - Lemmy

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/71123 [https://lemmy.ml/post/71123] > Alovoa looking for contributors! > Can you help us implement decentralization for open source dating app? > > ActivityPub? > > Help us, join the project: > https://github.com/Alovoa/alovoa [https://github.com/Alovoa/alovoa]

Jun 23, 2021 at 8:22amWeb
Show threadMyFairJuliaJul 20, 2023
Dating is among the last things i expected to be brought into the fediverse and turned open source.
Show threadsmallcirclesJul 20, 2023
Dating-like apps come up in fedi discussions quite often. They have interesting aspects, for instance where obviously privacy is a big concern and where current generation of federated apps aren’t adequate for dating. And how do communities / instances establish their trustworthiness? There are kinds of ‘dating’ were the requirements can be less severe. Like “Meet new Friends” kind of services where e.g. you seek folks for collaborative gameplay in some MMORPG or something.
Show threadEndlessvoidJul 20, 2023
This is interesting, I struggle to see how/why it makes sense as a federated service. What does the person hosting the instance get out of it once they’ve found a partner? Seems like an open source dating app would be better suited to a p2p implementation.
Show threadWalkableProgrammerJul 20, 2023
I agree but thinking about it, it’s probably the service that should be open source. Tinder and tinder parent company is messing up dating for an entire generation
Show threadbob_wileyJul 20, 2023

Pretty much every dating app is owned by Match Group. They own Match (obviously), Tinder, Meetic, OkCupid, Hinge, Plenty of Fish, Our Time, The League, Black People Meet, and more.

Being a for-profit company they don’t have an incentive to work well. If they did, they’d figure out which way works the best, and funnel everyone there and close down the others. Instead, they just get people to bounce around all these sites and go nowhere.

Show threadTheObserverJul 20, 2023
Oh yay look at this another dating app. So we will have even more bots, even more horny men and MAYBE 10 woman that are actual woman and not some creep pretending to be one. Sorry man but making a dating app where mostly nerds will go will just end up with that situation.
Show threadWoodyboyeJul 20, 2023
I dont think it matters where its at, dating apps suck. Not because they arent federated, but because realistically, most of the people using it wont get anything out of it. And limiting it to such a space where your userbase isnt the general populace makes it where youll only get a handful of times it may even work at all.
Show threadRouxibeauJul 20, 2023
Cloaca, the app.
Show threadGlitchSirJul 20, 2023
Is it some kind of rule that fediverse services must have odd or unpronounceable names?
Show threadJackcooperJul 21, 2023
All the other names were taken, like on Futurama when the Mets retired every number