Found this article after a quick web search: forbes.com/…/what-is-tea-the-viral-women-only-app…
It’s an app where women upload photos of men they’re dating to get “the tea” on them (red flags, catfishing, etc.). I always wondered if something like this existed. Sucks that it has to, sucks even more if their users are being targeted like this.
The reason that up until now an app like that hasn’t existed is because it is an absolutely awful idea if you spend more than 10 seconds thinking about it.
It’s ripe for abuse in fact I would be surprised if even half of the reports are legitimate. Isn’t absolutely god awful system and whoever thought this up is an absolute prat, who seriously needs to get outside and actually experience real life and real people.
The original incarnation on Facebook got sued for posting libel and shut down. There’s no judge of truth on these apps it’s all she said and no he said.
Sucks that it has to
It doesn’t have to.
Sprocketfree@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Talk about adding to the toxic nature of the world. Anyone thinking we should have a digital record of social reputation isn’t thinking it through.
glimse@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It’s a reaction to the toxic nature of the world, what it adds is a drop in the bucket in exchange for avoiding abusers
Randomgal@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
If this was an app where men post photos of women without their permission, you would he losing your mind over how gross it is.
glimse@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Women aren’t routinely abusing men with dating apps so yeah I would be weirded out lmao
Sprocketfree@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Strong disagree. Just creating another bully culture.
glimse@lemmy.world 3 days ago
What’s the alternative to warning strangers about predators?
IcyToes@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
But are they abusers? You sure they ain’t just getting revenge on an ex, making them uhdateable. How do you even validate this information?
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It’s gossip and toxic. Have you not seen what these places are on Facebook?
Gigasser@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I mean. A social database I feel is toxic in of itself. It’s makes forgiveness harder, it makes changing yourself harder. What’s the point in changing if people are gonna look you up in a database like this and perhaps forevermore treat you as if you are like that in the present day, forever. It assumes that humans are unchanging, that once a shitty person always a shitty person.