I was trying to explain federated websites to a friend and she asked if there is a federated dating app. She recently went through a break up and the apps are dreadful as I’m sure many of you know.
It’d be hard to launch a dating system on the fediverse because it the type of service that relies heavily on network effects. People want to be on the dating app with the most people. However, I think there is an opportunity because the mainstream apps are so notoriously awful, monetized, and enshitified.
It could be a community within an existing network or it could be its own website. I don’t know, I’m just putting the idea out there.
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I feel like not everything has to be federated and this is one of those things
We should recreate that old OkCupid matching system where users make, answer, and vote on the importance of different questions.
Honestly. A FOSS dating site might be enough, it doesn’t need to be federated, I suspect most people would get what they are looking for from FOSS. Also, safety is a big deal on dating sites, I guess defed helps you to not show people who don’t moderate well, but I wonder if a well moderated FOSS dating app is the ideal.
I kid you not I was thinking about this TODAY while taking a shower.
I think it’s funny to imagine how silly it would be and everyone would joke around with couch + Vance memes, except for a single couple that actually met and fell in love and everybody asks for updates all the timeIn reality I don’t think it would work, but I have been wrong once before so go for it