hrefna,
@hrefna@hachyderm.io avatar

I don't know who needs to hear this, but the does not need a dating app. Please please please do not create a dating app here at least until we fix some fairly substantive issues around trust and safety.

sgf,
@sgf@mastodon.xyz avatar

@hrefna That is a mind-bendingly bad idea. I almost want to see it happen just to watch the train-wreck, and then I feel bad for thinking that, because it would be actually just plain bad.

The FOSS user-empathy-free design.

The complete misapplication of cryptography.

Some dodgy dude running a server and reading the DMs.

Trust and safety being planned for v2.

A careful design being hard, so the only implementation is someone YOLOing.

I'm deliberately not even scratching the surface.

Ugh.

Duncan,

@hrefna
"until we fix some fairly substantive issues around trust and safety"
Given the number of people using dating apps, and the impact these can have on people's lives. I would like to see this happen one day. Commercial dating apps have a conflict of interest - if you find the love of your life they lose a customer. I don't use dating apps but if there was one with community ownership I might

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