Forgot to mention, apps that at least has a good following and matches in Europe.
Yea it’s a cool app called meeting people IRL, kinda obscure tho
No.
Next question.
A better question is can a dating app be good?
Around 2010, every tech bro that’s creaming shorts over AI today was trying to figure out how to make money behind the fact that everyone had smartphones. But it turned out, that smartphones can’t solve every problem.
Dating I would argue, is just one of those things tech made worse. Never mind how often the damn thing fails, think about the conditions where it would function well. A dystopian world where everything is shallow and operating on incel-math.
And how could it be otherwise? Dating apps are just math people trying to solve for love. This is the plot to a comedy movie, not a business plan.
Well, I know this won’t be useful for a lot of people. But HER is a femme focused app (but open to all queer folk) that is super duper generious with the amount matches and chat it allows.
Yeah, I’m not going to cat fish as a girl
Okie dokie. Didn’t really think so, but it’s by far the best app I have used with essentially no pay well so I figure I’d mention it for anyone else who sees this thread.
I used Bumble to find my now fiance. I didn’t pay for it, but also was patient and treated it like an investment instead of expecting immediate results. Ymmv
Bumble is terrible for meeting people. Once you match someone they have 24 hours to respond. I’m fine with the woman needing to message first, but if you don’t respond in that 24 hours their match is removed. What if that woman has a life and didn’t open the app that day? Oh but you can spend money to extend that window. So if she’s on vacation yay you get to buy extensions for a week. It’s just a scam.
Women don’t even have to message first anymore in bumble, they got rid of their main gimmick. They’re just yellow tinder now.
Ah well that’s good. But is the 24 hour window still there?
Fetlife if you’re kinky. You gotta use it to find local events with fellow kinky people, meet up, vet each other. Etc etc.
There is Alovoa, it’s open source, still has a small user base, but you don’t have anything to lose…
I’m holding the torch for OkCupid. I’ve met my SOs there. Many queer folk, leftists, likes work reasonably well and you even get free “superlikes” once a week. Messages are free, likes are free.
and you even get free “superlikes” once a week
… are we using the same OkCupid?
not sure? I got one superlike to use for free a week. is that a regional thing? i have never paid for OkC in my life.
Not likely as that is how they make money, lure men in with fake female accounts and make them pay for more swipes, more messages, more prominent messages, read notifications.
Idk, I didn’t like it. Might just be the people around here who use it tho. The way the 16 personalities test thingy is ingrained there also kinda rubbed me the wrong way.
Have you used it?
Yes. Seems decent it’s like mostly for dating but you have the option to just use it for friends. So that ‘pressure’ so to speak isn’t there.
There’s even a social feed and you can make posts and just talk to other people
Just use it. Deleted. It’s completely useless and I can’t find a single person nearby. And now they got my info… Great.
