• TeaWithDani@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    It’s just trying to get you engaged to ultimately pay. You can have matches and they’ll be super far in the cue forcing you to buy matches or access to seeing them.

    The prices to make the apps functional are incredibly high.

    Besides, I don’t think they need to engineer anything to be bad. Dating random people outside your social network and interests is just not a recipe for success. Much easier to date people in the same environment as you: work, school, friend group etc…

    Dating apps cant do that. Matching people you kinda know is really weird and awkward lol

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      6 days ago

      Besides, I don’t think they need to engineer anything to be bad. Dating random people outside your social network and interests is just not a recipe for success. Much easier to date people in the same environment as you: work, school, friend group etc…

      Dating apps cant do that. Matching people you kinda know is really weird and awkward lol

      That’s not what people who used dating apps prior to enshittification (before 2019, I guess) say.

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        5 days ago

        It was always shit, I promise you release day Tinder was not all that different from today. Maybe less expensive to use.

        Hell, first dating advice I got was “use the websites that charge you for replies, people are more serious there”. lol, you used to have to pay to talk back prior to smartphones.