Is that why they all feel the same and suck equally?
OKCupid used to be great. Felt different. Less corporate I guess. Easier to talk to people. Was shit the last time I checked a handful of years ago.
Fun Fact: OKCupid used to be SparkNotes, which used to be a CliffNotes type site. Then they started doing user generated quizes. Which X-Men would you be? Then it was randomly a dating site one day.
And bumble and even a Japanese dating app it says lol
I wonder if you will find real people, real connections if you create a profile that contradicts what you are looking for.
You want an outdoorsy, travelling, generally adventurous personality to travel the world with. If you ask for that, they’re going to match you with introverted hermits.
Ask for hermit homebodies. You’ll find your Ellie.
Consider the chance that they built an algorithm that matches you with failures to keep you coming back to the platform.
the best way to avoid monopoly charges, is to create multiple companies that “compete” with eachother, that you own.
Luxotica learned this a long time ago, which is why they profit on almost any pair of glasses you buy, and why no one things its a monopoly
I’m assuming Pepsi and coca cola are similar since they own all the food, or what they call food.
Pretty much. Pepsi and Frito lay are one thing now.
IIRC, Pepsi and Coca-Cola are not owned by the same parent umbrella corporation. But you are generally right. Again, IIRC, there are like six companies that own something like 85% of brands in grocery stores.
I really like Bolle sunglasses. They are outside of the Luxottica monopoly.
For now.
It’s just a big game of Monopoly except they’re allowed to trick us into thinking they haven’t dominated the board yet. What a joke.
They must be so happy having facilitated introducing so many people to their true love.
Probably with shared fake profiles, too.
And they have made the apps intentionaly worse, because a successful dating app deletes its users.
The proof lies in them not bothering to ask, “Why did you reject this person?” If they actually took note, they would zero in on your type immediately and send you only people of that type and you’d match within weeks. They don’t want that lol. They want you to hang around…
Yeah it’s one of those cases where basic material interest ought to cast suspicion on the apps in my view.
Makes perfect sense! How many companies would you expect to own all the popular dating sites? 5? 10?
Of course not! There should only be one company controlling entire markets, it’s the American way 🤡
Here are all the sites the match group owns. All of the ‘* people meet’ sites are making me laugh.
Archer Asian People Meet Babyboomer People Meet BB People Meet Black Christian People Meet Black People Meet Black Professional People Meet BLK Catholic People Meet Chinese People Meet Chispa Delightful Democratic People Meet Divorced People Meet Genxpeoplemeet Her Hinge Indiamatch Interracial People Meet Italian People Meet J People Meet Latino People Meet Ldsplanet Little People Meet Loveandseek Marriage Minded People Meet Match.com Match Japan OkCupid Ourtime Pairs People Meet Pet People Meet Plenty of Fish Republican People Meet Salams Seniorblack People Meet Single People Meet Sniffies (minority stake)[63][64] Stir The League Tinder Upward Yuzu
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Asian People Meet
Babyboomer People Meet
BB People Meet
Black Christian People Meet
Black People Meet
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Catholic People Meet
Chinese People Meet
Chispa
Delightful
Democratic People Meet
Divorced People Meet
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Her
Hinge
Indiamatch
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Italian People Meet
J People Meet
Latino People Meet
Ldsplanet
Little People Meet
Loveandseek
Marriage Minded People Meet
Match Japan
OkCupid
Ourtime
Pairs
People Meet
Pet People Meet
Plenty of Fish
Republican People Meet
Salams
Seniorblack People Meet
Single People Meet
Sniffies (minority stake)[63][64]
Stir
The League
Tinder
Upward
Yuzu
I tried Yuzu, but the only one who wanted to fuck me was Nintendo.
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Are there any that are more independent?
I’ve seen adds gor duolicious on 4chan, it’s allegedly open source
Grindr is publically traded
And kept in business by a thriving community of convention-attending Republicans.
Bumble is the only mainstream one I know for certain is independent.
And the best part? Matching algorithms don’t do shit. You can’t actually predict attraction and interest based on matching character traits.
Hot take: match group is actually doing a pretty damn good job of trying to get you a date. The constant changing fashions of dating sites indicates that the company’s sites don’t have a stranglehold on the market like, say, facebook does. They have significant competitors in the form of Bumble, Grindr, Feeld, Badoo, etc. People on site like Lemmy often concoct conspiracies about how the sites are somehow nefariously keeping your soulmate from you.
But they arent. Dating sites arent difficult because the companies are evil (sure, they are evil, but thats not why dating sites are difficult). They are difficult because people are difficult.
Nah, match group has been using fake accounts to lure mostly men into their sites for decades. Make a free account, get a message within 30 minutes, pay 5 bucks to read it.
Last time I used tinder, in early 2023, the app was actively hiding any of the “49+” profiles that had swiped right on me. I’d get, at best, 1 match a week. I mean, 300 (yes, I counted) swipes left and not a single “you missed a match”?? They probably had fingerprinted my device and knew I was a returning user, even if I was on a different phone number, so I was a better target for them to sell their subscriptions. Either that or the algo caught how I was just going left without a thought and kept showing all their fakes and bots.
hell, tinder is so awful that the vast majority of brazilian users there just leave their instagram handle on their profile, with a few also asking to “only message if we match”
If your complaint is “this business won’t give me their services for free”, then that’s not a real complaint. They’re a business, and businesses exist to make money. Last I checked, the price of a hinge subscription for a month was about $30. You could easily spend that much on a few drinks in a night at a trendy bar.
Is tinder full of bots? Yes. But also, tinder is something of a sinking ship, and the bots keep their numbers inflated while not fighting thr flood saves on expenses. I’ve had much better luck on Hinge.
If they did an actually good job, they would ask every person after every single swipe, “Why did you reject/accept this person?” and zero in on your type instantly. They’d use that data to immediately, strictly filter for such people and you’d be off in a month, tops. I don’t know how many times I have to repeat it: they do not care about you matching.
With that said, people being difficult and guarded and full of expectations sure don’t help, either, yeah.
That is an awesome idea for a dating site. You should make it, and when it starts finding people their soulmates within a month, it will quickly become the most profitable app in the world and you’ll make oodles of money.
Or else you’ll figure out some flaw in your plan, and it will end up about as good at finding people matches as showing them a random assortment of people on the site.
What a confidently ignorant statement.
