Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app
Submitted 8 months ago by fantawurstwasser@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world
Submitted 8 months ago by fantawurstwasser@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world
just_another_person@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Huh…
Part of these types of things generally seem like a well-intentioned idea, but it’s also so creepy, scammy, and gross. This data won’t stop here by any means, and will be sold or used in a million different even shittier ways. Pretty fucked.
Keyboard@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yea I agree with you
yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
yeah, well-intentioned things tend to go sour when exposed to the glow of anonymity on the internet. Starts off innocent, and goes downhill fast.
The creator, Sean, stating that he started this app as a reaction to the online dating scene his mother experienced, seems fine: an anti-catfishing app would be great.
To give the devil their due, the data they collect might also be valuable as data on how women discuss men online, which at a cursory glance seems to favor far more hyperbole than I see in everyday life.
BombOmOm@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s fine, no reason to sell the data, the service was literally just breached!
starman@programming.dev 8 months ago
Hahaha, that’s hilarious. I’ve just seen it on /g/ today.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 8 months ago
😂
Gork@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Don’t these companies know how to properly configure a database? This seemed like it was completely preventable.