• @dejected_warp_core
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      2610 months ago

      Sorry buddy. If you’re on a dating site, you’re in the display case with everybody else.

      • @[email protected]
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        1210 months ago

        Yeah that’s why I quit. Also those apps are a tracking nightmare. I’d rather just take my chances out among the other meatbags.

        • @dejected_warp_core
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          10 months ago

          Probably your best move. As best I can tell, (honest) people on those sites are trying to approximate the kind of background info you get “on referral.” And from a business perspective, the service itself is just capitalizing on loneliness and taking advantage of how geographically scattered people are. So it’s messy from the get-go.

          Making friends and building a real, in person, social network is more effort but will yield stronger results. In the end, other people will be able to vouch for your social behavior which is something a dating site cannot do. And that goes both directions, too. As a bonus: you may get to see if your date’s friends are good people, before you even go out.