• SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    If countries’ leaders weren’t dumb as shit they would offer public dating apps that don’t try to exploit people.

    These apps work great when the goal is to match people who would get along, capitalism enshittified them.

    It’s obviously how most people want to meet, why not offer people a dating site that isn’t shit to fix isolation?

    I honestly think countries don’t want to fix their birthrates at all, none of them do anything significant to help them.

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      2 days ago

      I feel like if countries’ leaders weren’t dumb as shit, they’d work to fix healthcare, education, and the economy, as that would have a much larger positive impact than a dating app.

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        One of these things can be done with a web app for a very small amount of discretionary spending that doesn’t need to be approved by any congress or voters

        Like it would probably cost less than 5mil to do it right, every city in the country has that money sitting around and all it would take is 1 of them writing up a contract with a developer.

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        1 day ago

        True but companionship/dating definitely helps in a way

        Also we would be getting to the future of awesome stuff way quicker than we are now

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      1 day ago

      The best way to make it better is supporting Alovoa and Duolicious by developing them further and using them as well. That will help in immense ways to improve dating scene. Also would be interesting if we ever get an AdultFriendFinder open source alternative eventually too

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          https://alternativeto.net/ is a website people use to list all kinds of alternatives to many different things. Alovoa and Duolicious have profiles on there linking to their websites/repositories/etc. Haven’t checked what license they have but if they have right one they can be forked if needed

          Edit: Just found about Fynd too. It’s a non profit but is not open source

          Edit 2: Duolicious is a non-profit as well

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            17 hours ago

            Hopefully, one of these can take off

            Dating sites work best when everyone is on the same app, so the less popular ones usually have a disappointing number of members.