‘It’s quite soul-destroying’: how we fell out of love with dating apps::For a decade, apps have dominated dating. But now singles are growing tired of swiping and are looking for new ways to meet people – or reverting to old ones

  • iopq@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    30
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    Dativerse when? Seems like this is ripe for disruption by a free solution

    • Dark ArcA
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      9
      ·
      1 year ago

      I’ve thought about it before. The thing is with all the images getting loaded so much it would get expensive quick.

        • Dark ArcA
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          1 year ago

          I think those could be dealt with, but just the sheer bandwidth of someone loading 3-10 images per profile and then rapidly flicking through them and onto the next one…

          The storage costs would be one thing, but the bandwidth of that would be another entirely.

          As much as I’d like to think that people would donate, I’ve found the majority of people to be pretty cheap and unwilling to donate money for something they can get for free.

        • qaz@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          1 year ago

          I think most major instances only allow linking to videos and won’t allow you to directly upload it.

    • imgprojts@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      Yes, why can’t Lemmy just work for that?

      Just create a “City Nama, M4W/M4M/W4W/W4M.MM4W…etc”

      That would work no?

      • iopq@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        10
        ·
        1 year ago

        No, because newer or more upvoted is not better. The way Lemmy is set up for news makes it bad for leaving a page up for your profile and getting people to look at it over time

      • wildwhitehorses@aussie.zone
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        6
        ·
        1 year ago

        It turns Into hookups and sexually explicit pics if reddit was anything to go by. But if it was for relationships not just hook ups, I’d like it.