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It's so obviously designed primarily to get you to spend money on it, not to help you meet people. Some people have liked me, but despite daily swiping, I have no matches. It's clearly hiding them to get me to pay. On top of that, I had to verify my profile several times as well because I kept getting locked out of my account. It also deleted my bio because it thought I was sharing a social media handle (because how dare you chat to somebody outside of Tinder).

And before anyone calls me a fool for continuing to use it, I'm deleting my account right now lol.

When it comes to dating, nothing tops just going out and meeting people face to face without predatory apps acting as a "middleman".

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[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It is probably like you say, but for all it's worth, when I went to a business trip to South Korea 5 years ago I installed the app because I thought my work colleague will probably constantly hook up with girls and I will be the third wheel. I thought I could try out tinder because it also was the only international dating app I knew, and for some reason I even decided to pay, because the trip was only for 3 months and that would be a limited trail for me and I would stop it when I'd be back.

Turns out I very quickly matched with a local woman and the other guy ended up being the third wheel. Today we're married and have two children.

I'm not trying to make advertisement for this specific company, just for sometimes doing something out of your character to shake things up if what you've been doing for a long time doesn't seem to work.

[–] vandsjov@feddit.dk 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Me too: Wife and two children, meet wife on Tinder 11 years ago.

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It was a lot different 11 years ago btw

[–] vandsjov@feddit.dk 1 points 23 hours ago

I hear that from people. I think it worked as I expected back then. Went on dates that often went a little further than normal dates, and if you were looking for a relationship, you might get lucky.