Boo is the best dating app I've used outside of Facebook Dating. It's still pretty shitty though, and I wholly agree with your criticism about the discussion threads.

Actually gamifying the use of their app as a social media platform to gain further privileges on the dating side of the app is a genius idea though, but it's executed so poorly. If it had the high quality discussions of Lemmy/Reddit, or the plethora of edgy memes you find on 9GAG, Facebook, iFunny, etc, then it could be a game changer.

I could go on a massive rant about how Tinder is dogshit and every other dating app has been bought out and transformed into yet another Tinder clone by greedy monopolistic cunts who the Federal Trade Commission should have shut down years ago, but I've already wasted a lot of my energy ranting about my shitty experiences before.

Maybe we wouldn't have an incel epidemic if the modern dating experience wasn't so awful for men.

As I've said before, Facebook Dating is the best experience I've had, and that's primarily because Mark Zuckerberg is more motivated by harvesting all your personal information, not by suckering you into paying 4 times the price of a WoW subscription just to see who liked your profile.

Kippo is even more hilarious. Nearly every profile is just trying to recruit you to watch their E girl twitch stream or onlyfans and is not interested in dating.

Sounds like Okcupid to me. I get a lot of matches on there, but they're all either:

Scammers trying to lull me into a crypto investment scheme.
E-girls using the platform to plug their OnlyFans
African and South-East Asian ladies who discovered GPS spoofing and are on the prowl for a Western husband and the means to a green card.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Hey honestly I'm glad it worked for you.

I don't use anything Facebook out of principal.

I think that dating apps and social media in general are part of why there are so many incels, and now femcels.

Its literally just as simple as 'Everyone seems so pretty, rich and happy' and then that devolves into a whole bunch of self reinforcing stereotypes that become world views.

We have basically made being a fake idea of a person into something seemingly obtainable to anyone, even though it almost never is, and to actually maintain that after you've basically lucked into having a following, you almost have to become an insane / shitty person.

Also, I used to have good luck with OkCupid, but yeah it enshittified not long after MatchGroup, or whatever huge conglomerate that owns basically every US dating app, purchased it.

And that large conglomerate itself is now owned by Facebook/Meta, if I am not mistaken.

So... yeah. Corporate monopolies ruin everything.

Maybe we should all try that insane 4chan dating app and then have our identities stolen rofl, at least it isn't sold out hahah.

[–] Clbull 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I wouldn't say it "worked" for me... When I state that they're the best dating apps, it's more like comparing the experience of eating a shit sandwich without any toppings to adding something like mayo or BBQ sauce in an attempt to drown out the taste of fecal matter. You can't polish a turd.