I liked OkCupid’s question system, but since that place has become unusable there is no good way of meeting people online without investing considerable effort sifting through discord servers and whatnot. I had high hopes for Matrix, but Matrix turned out to have a fair share of rooms full of really mentally ill people set on evading moderation.

I’m not talking about romantic or sexual dating, that is not the aim. So far I’ve only met one person online who proved to be a consistent friend.

The whole conundrum is so troubling to me that I have started thinking about building a crude matching algorithm and using that for a FLOSS chatting site that doesn’t have pictures, bios, searchable profiles and all that jazz. Just: ‘yes’/‘no’ and 6 pt scale questions. Maybe also a contrast mode to discover radically different people. The biggest obstacle here would be certain legal questions (especially around liability.)

Before I start doing that I want to ask if anyone here knows of a decent site to meet people.

    • meat@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      2·
      20 hours ago

      Meetup has recently doubled their prices to run a group, and it’s definitely impacting groups that I’m in. It’s not unusual for organizers to ask for $10-15 from attendees to cover these high organizer subscription costs.

      It also feels excessively greedy that they have locked more features behind a user subscription.

      • expletivedeleted@lemmy.zip
        1·
        26 minutes ago

        Yeah, I was about to say: meetup is pretty much dead. I live in an area of 350k people, and I think there is one for hiking and one for atheism (which makes no sense to me, like, at all. What are you going to do? Talk about what you don’t believe in?)

    • otacon239
      2·
      20 hours ago

      I just checked this out but $10 a week just to find local groups is ridiculous! I’m not even looking for dates and now even the not-really-for-dating app is paid. No wonder people can’t meet anyone anymore.

      Edit: I was duped by their subscription screen. I was wrong

      • fatcat@discuss.tchncs.de
        1·
        21 hours ago

        $10? How do you get to that price? I see groups in my local area without even logging in. There is a Pro option, which is for organizers who organize more things.

        • otacon239
          2·
          20 hours ago

          I was duped by their subscription page during setup. I’ll edit my comment.