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I was trying to explain federated websites to a friend and she asked if there is a federated dating app. She recently went through a break up and the apps are dreadful as I'm sure many of you know.

It'd be hard to launch a dating system on the fediverse because it the type of service that relies heavily on network effects. People want to be on the dating app with the most people. However, I think there is an opportunity because the mainstream apps are so notoriously awful, monetized, and enshitified.

It could be a community within an existing network or it could be its own website. I don't know, I'm just putting the idea out there.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

no, it could be a separate, but also federated network.

My problem is that conventional dating apps do not work in favor of the users. So the users should community-host it. But since such community-hosted instances tend to be small, it makes sense to federate them. That is what i propose(d).