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Tinder-alternatives for the Fediverse (feddit.org)

submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Not exactly federated, but open source: https://github.com/Alovoa/alovoa

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The trouble is that with this sort 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. 🥲

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Solvable by requiring verification of every user by government ID?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Then you’d need some organization with resources to store this data? You’d still need to trust someone to do this correctly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

Oh, I was more thinking in the context of a centralized service, although technically it should be possible to do this in a federated manner too. I don't think the resources would be an issue, but the liability of holding this data would be. I don't know how that works on sites that currently do this though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Looking at their github and they havnt merged a PR since October. Feels a like it might be dead.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

Last commit was two weeks ago.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

from the images on the front page, i get the feeling the userbase is tiny

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Haha, I don't think those are real users. But yeah, they could have done a better job selecting a pool of stock photos.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I'm not sure if I posted this, but I figured out they have seeing 50k users, and 1:10 gender ratio - although that doesn't say how many are real people.