What would a FOSS dating app look like?

    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
      12·
      2 days ago

      how many straight women do you know that are FOSS?

      even among men, how many care about FOSS? like .1%?

      I know what Foss is, but I don’t care about it. but i do find it amusing the how superiority complex FOSS people have and how they fail to realize how the average windows/mac users is just going to find that weird and offputting, as they do most foss software.

      • daggermoon@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 days ago

        how many straight women do you know that are FOSS?

        Straight? None. I’m not saying they don’t exist. I’m just saying there is a very heavy skew towards men.

        even among men, how many care about FOSS? like .1%?

        Not many, I already said the app likely wouldn’t work.

        but i do find it amusing the how superiority complex FOSS people have and how they fail to realize how the average windows/mac users is just going to find that weird and offputting

        How does my comment demonstrate a superiority complex? Why are you even participating in this conversation if you don’t care about it? Clearly you’re not the intended audience here. I’m not saying this to be a dick or anything? I just genuinely don’t understand why. Also, I haven’t failed to realize anything, I’m very aware of what the rest of the world thinks of me and the foss people. I don’t give a fuck. You should try not giving a fuck.

    • thatradomguy@lemmy.world
      5·
      3 days ago

      Same. I installed it on my phone but in the end, I’m still stuck with the dilemma if I go through with giving them my data/info or not. At this point, I’d have better luck just loitering around Target and asking someone out.

      • robber@lemmy.ml
        4·
        2 days ago

        Exactly this. Since it does not seem to be federated, you’re still forced to give your data to a third party you can’t choose. And this makes the open source aspect a rather marginal benefit, at least for the privacy-concerned end user. Still, I appreaciate the effort.

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    81·
    2 days ago

    What it would look like is a badly themed badly optimized front end that isn’t in the App store, was recently removed from the Play store, with a rape awful name like CLIT or CL Isn’t Tinder or LibreMeetCute and a nonsense icon. It would rapidly become recognized as the engine used by the huge number of extremely sketchy personals sites that popped up all of a sudden that contain only virtual prostitutes. It would also be the engine that powers Truth Romance. It would have the worst Github issues page in human history.

  • vfreire85@lemmy.ml
    2·
    2 days ago

    My two cents on dating apps in general:

    1. I would rather have something that actually marks someone as willing to have a relationship instead of clinging to people that for some reason are not available; maybe I’m just lazy of knowing people, but on the other side it skips some hurdles and puts me on contact with someone I might have taken a long time to know, if at all;
    2. on the other side, dating apps really reward someone physically attractive or at least that uploads the best photos. I’ve met several people who in person are alright for me which I wouldn’t swipe if I met them in an app. Also, after I actually paid a professional photographer to shoot a set of me and uploaded the pics on apps, I received more likes in a single week than during my entire life, even though nothing fundamentally changed and I’m still the same.
  • NeedyPlatter@lemmy.caEnglish
    7·
    3 days ago

    Hopefully none of that “subscribe to see more matches” bs

    Oh, and one of the generic message prompts is “What Linux distro do you use?”