What would a FOSS dating app look like?
I have had this idea in my mind of building a privacy-first, open source dating app built on “privacy by design” principles. Still didn’t get to it tho.
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.
Is it good?
I feel like it would be almost impossible for the app ti reach critical mass in any local area
“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 haven’t tried it, but there is one: https://github.com/Alovoa/alovoa
Tried it, doesn’t work. Too many bugs. I can’t input a location and it fails to auto-detect so I am just living in cyberspace apparently.
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.
I think it would be mostly men. I like the idea of it though.
Men and trans girls
Sounds like a viable app now that you mention that.
As an experiment - try setting up a dating community on Lemmy - report back with how that goes.
One here:
l4l@sh.itjust.works
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?
This isn’t a dig at Lemmy users
Does anyone even need a FOSS dating app?
I think they would be run better if the users had a say on how they’re run, so we could all probably use it.
would be cool for meeting local foss nerds, if theres any
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?”
Sorry, this feature is only available for users of Arch Linux
Instead of assessing compatibility I assume it would include ideological purity tests.
Literally just a dating app without the hidden algo that keeps people onboard and no payment. It could be federated.
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 don’t think I’m into dating apps
