Data-Hungry Dating Apps Are Worse Than Ever for Your Privacy | Mozilla privacynotincluded (foundation.mozilla.org)
from otter@lemmy.ca to technology@lemmy.world on 24 May 2024 09:52
https://lemmy.ca/post/21841807

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otter@lemmy.ca on 24 May 2024 09:53 next collapse

Most of the details are things that you might already know, or assumed was happening, but the article is a helpful resource for links, evidence, citations, and summaries

Dremor@lemmy.world on 24 May 2024 10:50 next collapse

Tbh, maybe someone should try making an open-source dating app.

You know what, being a dev myself that’s something I’ll try as a hobby project. We’ll see how it work out.

themurphy@lemmy.ml on 24 May 2024 10:56 next collapse

Keep us posted pls.

Dremor@lemmy.world on 24 May 2024 13:54 collapse

Will do, but don’t expect anything for at least a few month. 😆

recursive_recursion@programming.dev on 24 May 2024 11:01 next collapse

I know about:
Alova

  • License: MPL-2.0
Dremor@lemmy.world on 24 May 2024 11:16 collapse

As always someone already thought of it 😂.

I’ll take a look.

pennomi@lemmy.world on 24 May 2024 11:17 next collapse

Honestly, dating apps are one of the cases for a federated system. Use whatever frontend you want, no one person owns the backend so they can’t sleazily monetize you. Probably would need to be a bit more cryptographic than something like lemmy or mastodon though.

CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 24 May 2024 11:18 next collapse

With activityhub gaining traction, I actually think it’s possible. You essentially self host your profile, which gets federated around. You swipe left/right, thereby accepting federation from a match of blocking.

This could work.

Dremor@lemmy.world on 24 May 2024 13:55 collapse

Could be a good idea to differentiate from exiating solutions.

guyrocket@kbin.social on 24 May 2024 12:34 next collapse

IDK much about it, but this exists:

https://github.com/Alovoa/alovoa

tsonfeir@lemmy.world on 24 May 2024 13:25 next collapse

Making a dating app is easy. Getting the users is not.

applepie@kbin.social on 24 May 2024 17:25 collapse

Getting women* users is not

There ain't never a shortage of thirsty males haha

Well maybe after ww2 there was a time... But you get the point.

tsonfeir@lemmy.world on 24 May 2024 17:31 next collapse

They should try men

blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world on 25 May 2024 17:09 collapse

Yuck with the penises and all that? How the hell you supposed to fuck a penis anyway? What’re you supposed to do, dock em or something? I ain’t going near no gross dick. I mean sure, if she looked hot and I went to pull up her skirt after I had a few drinks in the bar and suddenly there was a dick… Well I don’t need to look at that when I’m tapping that ass from behind. It’s not like I’m gay or anything though. Sheesh. Weirdos.

eldesgraciado@lemm.ee on 24 May 2024 20:58 collapse

Easy fix: The user base should be gay dudes

applepie@kbin.social on 24 May 2024 21:32 collapse

do 'em boys even need apps tho, seems like thats like one group of people who aint struggling to find true love haha

Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social on 24 May 2024 13:36 next collapse

You know what, being a dev myself that’s something I’ll try as a hobby project. We’ll see how it work out.

That's what heroes do

[deleted] on 24 May 2024 14:11 next collapse

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eldesgraciado@lemm.ee on 24 May 2024 20:42 next collapse

If you need machine learning to match people, send me a message lol

Dremor@lemmy.world on 25 May 2024 05:15 collapse

Depends on how it is used. But I don’t think it should be used for the matching process itself though. Maybe to help match interest (tags) between each other, like giving a connection score between two of them, but other than that, I see no other privacy respecting way to use that.
Moreover, on which data would we train on? I don’t think there is any anonymized dating app dataset around.

RarePossum@programming.dev on 24 May 2024 22:10 collapse

Duolicious is one. Its user base is mostly 4channers though.

Technus@lemmy.zip on 24 May 2024 13:28 collapse

Forget dating apps. Is there a Lemmy community like R4R? If there is, I can’t find one.

FutileRecipe@lemmy.world on 25 May 2024 06:43 collapse

Is there a Lemmy community like R4R? If there is, I can’t find one.

Just did a search, and there are 3 with none active.

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