Wow this has a lot of up votes. Of course the loneliness epidemic is real but why blame something nebulous like the privatization of love when capitalism is right there. There's a profit motive in getting people to work longer hours for less pay and have less free time to build community

[–] Passerby6497 42 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Don't forget the commodification of all the 3rd places so now there's no real place for people to interact without having to spend money

[–] [email protected] 11 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Very thankful my community has public libraries, churches, community bike shops, makerspaces, etc because I know they're declining in some places, churches especially (too bad they're religious and they can't just switch to community organizations) also civic clubs like Rotary and lions club.

Can't take those orgs for granted they decay without involvement

[–] [email protected] 9 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Yes I just wanted to be more precise , in fact I was talking about the fact that more than halft of the meeting are donne thanks to dating app and that the algorithms of those app are made to make you dependent of those app and not for there original purpose . I think I m not clear but basically enshitifaction of dating app are a real problem and one major cause of loneliness that s what I wanted to say. Sorry for my broken english its not my first language

[–] [email protected] 6 points 19 hours ago

Oh yeah dating apps are a problem of capitalism too -- I know some people who've met their life partners on old apps but that's despite their tendency to keep you addicted to the app rather than finding someone