Tinder-alternatives for the Fediverse

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨sp3ctre@feddit.org⁩ to ⁨fediverse@lemmy.world⁩

Hey there!

Last year, I fell into the Fediverse-rabbithole and I really like it so far. We already have alternatives for Twitter/X, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit and so on.

But today I realized, there actually isn’t an alternative for tinder. But I think there could be a huge demand for it. This could also motivate people to change platforms, since no one wants to buy tinder premium for a lot of money.

But I think I’m maybe not the first one coming up with this idea. What do you think about this?

~ sp3ctre

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Tehdastehdas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Let’s not clone trash. Tinder sucks because it has no matching mechanism to filter out incompatible people. To find one interesting profile on Tinder I have to swipe about 500 profiles. To get more matches, I risk some false positives and like ~2% of profiles. Then I need to filter the matches in person. Very inefficient, a waste of time.

The opposite of that was OkCupid before Match Group destroyed it.

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- lohky@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  OKCupid was awesome. The questionnaire matched on a bunch of different categories and you could add clarification to the questions.
  
  Bummer it sounds like it’s toast. I met my wife on OKC.
  
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- sp3ctre@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  This could be a symptom of being corporate-driven. They suggest you incompatible people, because they want you to pay (to get better results). I assume you only tried the free version. I never tried the paid one.
  
  I think this problem could be solved.
  
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  - mbirth@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Even if you pay they have no incentive to get you to stop paying (i.e. find a partner).
    
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- PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  What would the matching mechanism do? Look at your fediverse activity and match people who like the same things as you?
  
  Could be interesting but creepy
  
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  - Lemming6969@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Just like match and okc you’d have to take a quiz and match against core values. Social media data mining would be a terrible way of matching.
    
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DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
1000001311

It has already happened to me. Too bad I can’t afford a plane ticket to Canada.

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- RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Every app is a dating app if you use it wrong enough.
  
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  - schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    A few weeks ago there was a screenshot going around “I met my wife in a github issue thread”.
    
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- fckreddit@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I got this message too.
  
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- schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I got that one several times too, and saw screenshots of it elsewhere too. Not in a while by now though.
  
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diskmaster23@lemmy.one ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Dating is a numbers game, so ya gotta go where your preferences are.

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Lemmchen@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Not exactly federated, but open source: github.com/Alovoa/alovoa

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- PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Looking at their github and they havnt merged a PR since October. Feels a like it might be dead.
  
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  - Lemmchen@feddit.org ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Last commit was two weeks ago.
    
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- sp3ctre@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Cool, didn’t know that one. Maybe it’s a good first step. Since it’s open source, people can work with it and develope it further.
  
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  - noughtnaut@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    The trouble is that with this sorry of thing you really do need some form of moderation or quality control (of the users, not (only) the platform) because it will be inundated by fake profiles and nasty content.
    
    As much as I’m cheering for Alovoa I don’t see how this is solveable. 🥲
    
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Cris_Color@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
There’s a Foss dating app called alovoa, I think I saw something on the subreddit when I was taking a look at it again a while back about potentially implementing activitypub

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- teri@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  My last impression was that alovoa would need a lot of work still. It’s also the best thing I’ve seen so far but it’s very buggy unfortunately.
  
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- PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Looking at their github and they havnt merged a PR since October. Feels a like it might be dead.
  
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introvertcatto@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Every social media is dating App!

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- Mac@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Uh, h-hi~
  twirls hair
  
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  - introvertcatto@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Hi (with rizz)
    
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- sp3ctre@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  People are used to seperate apps for dating I guess. And the “gamification”-concept like tinder is nice as well if there wouldn’t be a big profit-oriented company behind it. It could be a tinder with equal chances for everybody.
  
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  - introvertcatto@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I understand that and I wish it wasn’t the case, idk I feel like point of social media / or at least one of the points of using social media is to share your experiences, what you like or don’t like and find like minded people and if lucky enough meet love of your life. Basically like dating apps.
    
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geogeogeo@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I’ve heard of FediMatch: github.com/Lypsilonx/FediMatch I have not used it personally - might one day though.

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Jedi@bolha.forum ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
There is a Mastodon frontend with a Tinder-like interface: apps.apple.com/de/app/fedimatch/id6503460577

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frog_brawler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I want to make an effigy out of the corpse of tinder. I would not use a FOSS version of it.

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- ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Point of order, an effigy by definition would be a dummy/representation of the thing that you then symbolically destroy.
  
  As in, you make an effigy of Mussolini out of cloth and stuffing and burn it in a protest before lining him against a wall, killing him, and defiling his corpse. The corpse itself is not an effigy unless you then use that and make it look like Hitler, and then burn the Mussolini-Hitler corpse as an effigy of Hitler, which tbh would have some layers to it and seems like an innovation in effigy technology…
  
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