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Re: Duolicious – Open-source dating app

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Post by apeescape »

derbOac wrote: post #46
progmetaldev wrote: post #13

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Unfortunately, I don't think we're going to ever be getting an ethical dating app. It may be ethical as far as not charging users to connect, or not trying to keep users constantly staying single so they are always using and checking the app. Without that "addiction" potential, I think even a completely open dating app would fail miserably. If people were able to connect and move on quickly, there would be little rea…

I'm not sure what would constitute ethical versus not ethical exactly, but increasingly I've wondered if some governments will start supporting dating apps, if birthrates decline enough. Is that better than a private corporation app? Maybe or maybe not but it seems like it might change the "ethical issue landscape". Or maybe dating apps per se will fade away and dating functionality will just get folded into more gen…

I think Russians hinted at something like that being in the works over there. Might not be a bad idea for a rapidly aging country to do something like that.

Re: Duolicious – Open-source dating app

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Post by PaulHoule »

petre wrote: post #81
PaulHoule wrote: post #12

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The only people who think like think those are "great" apps are successfully promiscuous people around big cities with vast dating pools.

I wonder how they get away from becoming prostitution as a service apps.

Prostitution means somebody pays for sex. Promiscuous people have many partners.

Re: Duolicious – Open-source dating app

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Post by morkalork »

crooked-v wrote: post #35

4chan marketing aside, it looks like the basic idea here is to reinvent what OKCupid used to be once upon a time, before Match Group bought it out and holled it out into yet another Tinder clone.

If you can find their old datascience blogs (that have since been purged), there's some interesting stuff in there. Iirc, one of the saddest revelations is the feature that best predicts outcome was income, and that hobbies/interests that looked like good predictors were just correlated with income. To use an extreme example, are two people a good match because they both like Polo or was it because they're both from the same social strata where Polo is a thing.

Re: Duolicious – Open-source dating app

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Post by anonzzzies »

asdaqopqkq wrote: post #29

People looking for "an ethical dating app" are usually incel or incel adjacent. Dating is a zero sum game. Most men don't understand women. I'm saying this as a top 10% guy (IRL and on apps). It's best to acknowledge this and take this into account.

Top 10% guy... Are people really saying crap like that about themselves? Weird.

Re: Duolicious – Open-source dating app

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Post by npteljes »

amyames wrote: post #25
mrayycombi wrote: post #17

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Admit it. You just don't want people to know you're into Nigerian basket weaving.

Duolicious openly mocks its own users on Twitter. Calling them “chuds” and such. I guess if the shoe fits, wear it. But what a childish company to advertise on 4chan and market itself as being for that audience, to then sit there using condescending and derogatory slurs about them. Nice of them to open source everything so you can go make your own Duolicious with blackjack and hookers I guess.

That's just them playing into being "terminally online" - and, I'd wager, being really terminally online, but also presenting it as a joke, for it to be more palatable publicly.

Re: Duolicious – Open-source dating app

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Post by npteljes »

morkalork wrote: post #94
crooked-v wrote: post #35

4chan marketing aside, it looks like the basic idea here is to reinvent what OKCupid used to be once upon a time, before Match Group bought it out and holled it out into yet another Tinder clone.

If you can find their old datascience blogs (that have since been purged), there's some interesting stuff in there. Iirc, one of the saddest revelations is the feature that best predicts outcome was income, and that hobbies/interests that looked like good predictors were just correlated with income. To use an extreme example, are two people a good match because they both like Polo or was it because they're both from…

I agree with this, but funnily enough, this makes the system work, just not for the reasons at face value. So, people don't match because of they like similar hobbies, they match because they look for the same proxies of values and status.

Re: Duolicious – Open-source dating app

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Post by npteljes »

asdaqopqkq wrote: post #29

People looking for "an ethical dating app" are usually incel or incel adjacent. Dating is a zero sum game. Most men don't understand women. I'm saying this as a top 10% guy (IRL and on apps). It's best to acknowledge this and take this into account.

Where do you get "ethical"? Word not found on github, or their frontpage.

I also don't understand what the incel accusation, and then the announcement of incel-adjacent narratives add this conversation. Do you suggest people don't take rivalry into account?

Re: Duolicious – Open-source dating app

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Post by popcalc »

johnnyanmac wrote: post #36
BobaFloutist wrote: post #23

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No, because that's illegal sex-discrimination.

I want to hear a better answer than this. Seems like by its nature that any dating app needs sex discrimination.

Every single dating app employs sex discrimination on the backend.
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