No matter what you use, it seems they always fail and no one is interested.

Even a free app like duolicious has this problem.

  • TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Well, think about it.

    They profit off their users by either charging them for a service, selling user data, and/or advertisement. If their dating app was very successful and quickly matched users together, they wouldn’t be using the app very long and the company would lose potential profit.

    This probably wasn’t the case in the earlier days of the internet but it certainly is now. They want you hooked and coming back every day so they can get maximum profit off you.

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      5 months ago

      I’ve actually wondered if it’s possible to make a decent living taking a larger upfront cost to personally meet with people locally then match them accordingly. I just worry that it would be a lot of explaining to men that they don’t shower enough and to women that they’re either going to have to stay single, date other women, only have casual sex, or just accept that the bar is on the damn floor and I’m just trying to find them a man that showers and vaguely shares their cultural family values.

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          5 months ago

          And honestly to me a pretty necessary one. I see the utility of a service like okc used to be where you take all those quizzes then get a match percentage based on that because that would get a lot of the more boring work out of the way, but imo you would also need someone to personally evaluate how the people interact with a person they’re not intending to have sex with, because that’s going to be the biggest indicator of their true character and what factors are actually going to make people compatible beyond those first few interactions. You’d be able to match people who might not consider each other otherwise, and help people skip people who might look nice but don’t actually have anything in common. You could also give people some more honest feedback on what they’re doing that’s not matching up with the result they’re trying to achieve.

    • LiamBox@lemmy.mlOP
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      5 months ago

      Duolicious only asks for donations and it’s algorithm was interesting, too bad the anti-AFK ideology was never enforced