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[–] DasRav@hexbear.net 19 points 2 hours ago

Of course they did.

I keep being vindicated by not putting my photo on the internet.

[–] aReallyCrunchyLeaf@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 hour ago

Oh you want to find love in this spiraling dumpster fire hell world? What if instead we made an algorithm to fuel the Human Suffering Machine with your face

[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 5 points 1 hour ago
[–] cisco@hexbear.net 15 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

trade-offer

Crippling loneliness or help create the beast?

[–] microfiche@hexbear.net 6 points 1 hour ago

the beast w two backs?

[–] oliveoil@hexbear.net 5 points 1 hour ago (3 children)

Whelp, I was about to bite the bullet and sign up.

Guess not. I'll stay alone.

[–] Muinteoir_Saoirse@hexbear.net 9 points 54 minutes ago

OKCupid is notoriously a bad place to sign up anyway.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/okcupid-experiment_n_5628054

They openly admitted to experimenting on people, like hiding people's profile information, telling people who had scored high matches that they had low matches, telling people who scored low matches that they had high matches. They do non-consensual social experiments.

[–] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 8 points 1 hour ago

I don't think any dating app has actually been designed to help people get dates in at least a decade.

[–] Dr_Pepper@hexbear.net 3 points 48 minutes ago

As someone who has tried them off and on for the last 2 years, they are all 100% trash. Borderline scam territory, and if you do get matched with anyone and get a date out of it, they are usually self centered, rude, and not worth your time.