Online dating industry in crisis as shares fall and nearly half of all users report negative experiences on the apps

  • Tanis Nikana
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    825 days ago

    I know anecdote doesn’t mean data, but I met my wife on OKCupid. We’re both asexual trans women, and the notion of finding someone so compatible like that would have been terrible had we done it in real life, locally only. She was in Boston, I was in Portland. And asexual trans women are a minority of a minority, so it would have taken forever in real life.

    Then again, OK Cupid has since enshittified.

    • KillingTimeItself
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      -325 days ago

      you could still find each other online and get to know each other there, and then IRL. It just wouldnt be over a dating app.

      The internet is basically free, so i don’t see why we’re skipping over that one here.