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this post was submitted on 06 Nov 2023
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I remember the slightly gooder old days when OKCupid was the dominant dating "app" (because it was a website). You answered a ton of survey questsions ranging from serious philosophical and political question to silly personal preferences and weighed how important they were to you, then the website matched you with people who had similar values. You could write a big complicated profile if you wanted, upload some pictures. There were fun, silly quizes to take. It was actually designed to be user friendly and help you find people who had similar interests and values.
online dating doesn't have to be absolute bullshit. In theory it could work really well. We just have to, you know, kill capitalism.
https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.5964/ijpr.v3isupp2.78
https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1222447110
pnas lol
lol
That was my experience years and years ago.
I don't even know what changed from there but I know it's gotten worse since the site was bought and rebought by larger and larger techbro corporations after I left. Actually successfully dating isn't as profitable as keeping people around, and they learned that well.![emoji capitalist-laugh capitalist-laugh](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/fdc96d7d-9fc4-4fc0-95ef-17aaf25405a2.png)
They also published various funny/depressing statistics on their blog, worth a look if you're into that sort of thing