What would a FOSS dating app look like?
Unlikely. I have always found dating sites pretty uncomfortable.
Even in the best scenarios, there were never any people who shared my interests. Now I’m older/kinda exhausted of it. :3
If I was younger and still trying, I imagine I would want something that felt less like being in a display case, visually. Maybe also making people who didn’t share any of my values or interests unable to swipe.
i was looking for a dating app that like has no pictures
(because i noticed whenever i did got an dating app, the only thing i really cared about was getting matches, and how many … Because im insecure ^^ and idk but i did not really care about then chatting with anyone… like i did not really felt anything)
(and also like i see posts of people like just sharing random dating profiles and bullying them?? like i dont want that to happen, or like have someone steal my pictures and pretend to be me or whatever)
and the only one i found, did not run on grapheneOs for some reason i think… and then i was like fine whatever
So i would be intrested in some (foss) app, where i can get to know people based on shared intrests/ personallity. Instead of appearance
(also i think appearance is something that you can just change )
“David has requested your public key, do you accept?”
How do you think Alice and Bob met?
In an insecure love triangle with Mallory.
I think it would be mostly men. I like the idea of it though.
Men and trans girls
would be cool for meeting local foss nerds, if theres any
I feel like it would be almost impossible for the app ti reach critical mass in any local area
As an experiment - try setting up a dating community on Lemmy - report back with how that goes.
Why did I automatically imagine that hot dog gif…
To be fair there is a decent amount of people here who may enjoy that though. Straight males would likely struggle here like most other dating sites.
Do lemmons even need a dating community?
Literally just a dating app without the hidden algo that keeps people onboard and no payment. It could be federated.
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?”
Instead of assessing compatibility I assume it would include ideological purity tests.
The problem is most people are lazy and don’t understand anything. They just use the app they know, even if it sucks.
If you got it to be popular it could work , but I don’t see how you could.
I don’t think I’m into dating apps
Sure, why not.
What would it look like? Same as the others, text field for description, pictures, interests.
If it’s foss, I would want to see a https://reproducible-builds.org/ or some other method of verifying the accuracy of the process. Getting no matches would be better than the fake stuff the others do.
