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Anyone else remember using Facebook to find out if your new crush was available?
I mean besides rating women, that was the initial purpose of FB.
I met my wife on one of those dead websites that started out before Tinder was a thing and it's weird because we were one of the few people still there. I had no such luck with Tinder or any other apps at the time. That was 5 years ago.
Hinge also sucks, to the point where calling it 'the dating app designed to be deleted' is blatant false advertising.
"If you want minge, don't use Hinge" would've been a more accurate slogan.
The only decent dating app is KDE calendar. Other ones are confusing to me.
Modern dating apps are my personal hell.
If most of the dating apps weren't owned by the same group we might be in better shape. Like, it's no wonder they're all kind of samey, expensive, and ineffective - match group owns like all of them.
Capitalism is pretty bad, but it's way worse without competition.
Truly the worst possible system apart from all the other ones we’ve tried.
Friend of mine met his now wife as the very first woman he matched with on whatever app he used 10 years ago or so, and he can't fathom why I wouldn't give it a shot now.
You got fuckin lucky JOHN and the apps were free and weren't enshittified to keep you paying money to stay on the treadmill forever. Never mind that where I live now, I can throw a rock into a crowd of random people and have a 1/10 shot of hitting a cousin.
Help me step-cousin, I'm stuck
Can you date on Lemmy?
I put on my robe and wizard hat...
haaaarrrrrrrr
Only if you are looking meet crazy people
crazy people
I prefer the term "people with an interesting personality".
Lezduit
Honestly a lot of us on here talk about being lonely so...
I'd date on Lemmy, since it seems many folks here align more closely with my political views than anywhere else I've been.
Problem is, many folks are so privacy-focused (some to the point of paranoia) they won't give you much info about themselves or their personal lives.
Kind of funny, tbh.
If a cute girl could manage to dox and kidnap me, then it could work out as long as she has good internet in the basement.
I'm sure if the plan is to kidnap you, the end goal will result in
— not living as a pet in the basement.Tap for spoiler
torture and/or death
Torture just means she wasn't the right one.
I think Lemmy dating would work much better for people living in North America. Americans seem to be the biggest demographic by far.
I live in Northern Ireland, the chances of finding other people from here on Lemmy are already slim, let alone a girl from here who is a similar age to me and up for a date!
Dating apps are bit like voting in Northern Ireland in the UK general election. Technically you're taking part in choosing the next PM but in reality you're just squinting hard at a small list of munters that'll do nothing for you.
There's a lot of European users! In fact, I recall an entire community of folks centered in.. maybe Scotland?– sharing local news and going-ons with each other. So it can definitely be so with other areas!
Though, yeah, I think it may be less efficient if you're looking for folks who are local. May be more for folks just casting a net for someone, anywhere.
Imo it's also sort of hard because of the size. You'd have to find really small communities so you're running into the same people and have the opportunity to foster relationships. easier on smaller instances or communities, but if you're just browsing /all it'll be harder to notice the same people.
unless, like, a dating specific instance or community popped up. tho I can see all kinds of issues in that
A dating community sounds like fun!
No idea how it would be modded, though. But I don't plan to communicate on an 18+ level without at least meeting in-person first. I'm aware that many people do not take the same approach, though.
Idk. Still kind of interested in a dating instance!
Time to make a Lemmy Dating App 🤣
Was thinking about making a board for dating, but then I realized how much chaos certain people would cause there.
Fedate~
If there's a hole...
If you must, use DD/MM/YY
But YY/MM/DD works better for sorting files since then sorting by name will give you chronological order.
What kind of monster are you.
What if you're a YYYYMMDD person
As long as we agree that months go in the middle, idgaf
Why not both?
I use DDMMYYYY for everyday use but when naming backups (mainly on an external SSD) I use YYYYMMDD so sorting by name works correctly
Iso8601
Has no community yet on lemmy