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Duolicious – Open-source dating app

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Re: Duolicious – Open-source dating app

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Post by internetter »

I like the open source aspect, I've been looking for an ethical dating app for a long time, and based on the README it looks awesome! But then I clicked onto the site, and things did a 180, based on the edgy marketing copy on the landing page I don't think this is the site I'm looking for, as 'normie' as that might make me.

> There’s plenty of dating apps out there: Tinder, Bumble, OkCupid, Boo, Hinge. We think they’re all great apps... For normies! But a terminally-online meme-enjoying degenerate like yourself needs something more. That’s why we invented Duolicious!

> Duolicious is the dating app that helps you find your Discord-lurking, Reddit-updooting, Nigerian-basketweaving-forum-posting, chronically-online soulmate. Our fun personality quiz helps you meet like-minded people, and shows you a new match for every answer you give, thanks to our fancy matching algorithm.

Re: Duolicious – Open-source dating app

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Post by robrtsql »

> What’s the gender ratio on Duolicious?

> Right now the ratio of active men to women is 7.32:1. The ratio can change a lot, depending on which online communities have been talking about Duolicious lately; The ratio’s previously been as high as about 20:1.

Admitting this was brave.

Re: Duolicious – Open-source dating app

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Post by OutOfHere »

robrtsql wrote: post #5

> What’s the gender ratio on Duolicious? > Right now the ratio of active men to women is 7.32:1. The ratio can change a lot, depending on which online communities have been talking about Duolicious lately; The ratio’s previously been as high as about 20:1. Admitting this was brave.

Technically, most here would care for the ratio of active-straight-cis-men to active-straight-cis-women, which I am afraid could be substantially more distorted. (No offense to any other groups, which hopefully will have better luck anyway.)

Re: Duolicious – Open-source dating app

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Post by PaulHoule »

I like "Duolicious checks first messages for originality, and asks people to avoid overused openers like 'hey' and 'sup'."

I've been thinking a social network ought to be more opinionated. You need a god if you want to tell true or false, but a very simple AI model can detect infectious negative emotions.

Social media sites ought to ask you "are you sure you want to post this?" when you lose your shit. If somebody is getting dogpiled the whole conversation should be suspended for some time.

BERT + RNN models can eat that problem for lunch, the hard thing is that somebody with real emoptions has to make the training set.

Re: Duolicious – Open-source dating app

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Post by PaulHoule »

robrtsql wrote: post #5

> What’s the gender ratio on Duolicious? > Right now the ratio of active men to women is 7.32:1. The ratio can change a lot, depending on which online communities have been talking about Duolicious lately; The ratio’s previously been as high as about 20:1. Admitting this was brave.

Can they charge women $1 to join and charge men $20 or something?

Re: Duolicious – Open-source dating app

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Post by PaulHoule »

OutOfHere wrote: post #6
robrtsql wrote: post #5

> What’s the gender ratio on Duolicious? > Right now the ratio of active men to women is 7.32:1. The ratio can change a lot, depending on which online communities have been talking about Duolicious lately; The ratio’s previously been as high as about 20:1. Admitting this was brave.

Technically, most here would care for the ratio of active-straight-cis-men to active-straight-cis-women, which I am afraid could be substantially more distorted. (No offense to any other groups, which hopefully will have better luck anyway.)

I suspect the others are (on average) too self-centered to be serious about dating although some might put on a show as if they were.
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