• umbrella@lemmy.ml
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      1 month ago

      i wish i made a long lasting friend every 2 years or so.

      besides, those will give you the connections you need to actually date.

  • copandballtorture [ey/em]
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    1 month ago

    One in a thousand to even get a chance to talk to someone, what an encouraging system

    • TeddyKila [comrade/them]
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      1 month ago

      The algorithm suppresses male accounts wih excessively high right swipe ratios no-mouth-must-scream

      • barrbaric [he/him]
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        1 month ago

        Yeah, not to defend the apps or anything but filtering out the people who put in no effort and approve 96%+ makes sense.

        • sevenapples@lemmygrad.ml
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          1 month ago

          I get were you're coming from, but on the other hand most women put no effort to their profiles whatsoever. In my experience with Tinder 90-95% of profiles don't even have a bio, so how am I supposed to filter people based on some pictures and three tagged hobbies (which are usually bland like movies, travel, nights out)?

          • barrbaric [he/him]
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            1 month ago

            This is one of the reasons I don't use apps. I'd just have to not match with any of those 90-95%, at which point you're basically not using it at all.

          • DivineChaos100 [none/use name]
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            1 month ago

            That's cool you can go ahead and swipe them left then. Also:

            how am I supposed to filter people based on some pictures and three tagged hobbies (which are usually bland like movies, travel, nights out)?

            Getting really close to understand why these apps are shit.

      • radiofreeval [she/her]
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        1 month ago

        I think tinder uses Glicko-2 based on swipes to create an attractiveness ranking.

        We let the (frequently maidenless) chess nerds take control of love.

  • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 month ago

    The main problem here: commercial dating apps are not intended to help people find partners or flings. They are intended to make the companies money. Some may initially be functional but enshitification hits them fast, once they have a userbase established.

  • NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    28:1 odds I don't use tinder so I had to look up that I got that backwards, but rejecting 1 in 28 screams of desperation.

  • FIST_FILLET@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    there is no way in all of hell that 14k right swipes led to 14 matches unless the person’s bio literally says they are a sex offender or something insane like that

    • Asafum@feddit.nl
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      1 month ago

      I've been on dating sites for over 10 years now. The most "likes" I've ever had was 17.

      Not even matching. That number is like 6 over 10 years...

      I'm quite literally an absolute joke of a human though. I'm the exact person people joke about as being the worst kind of person: I'm a (guy) homebody who likes to smoke, play videogames, and garden. I'm fit but not muscular, short, balding, and not a fan of dogs or travel (way too expensive). I'm literally worse than Hitler to almost all women.

      Unfortunately the only people who have ever swiped on me except for those 6 I mentioned look like honey booboos mom, have kids, and dogs.

      • FIST_FILLET@lemmy.ml
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        1 month ago

        nah bro you’ll find your soulmate ❤️ you just gotta find the style that works for you to compliment the stuff you can’t change. anyone can be a 7/10, the rest is luck. and this is not even taking into account the fact that a fuckload of people value your personality much higher than cosmetic stuff