• Janx@piefed.social
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    16 days ago

    One giant corporation, profiting off of, and intentionally worsening the loneliness epidemic by buying up all the dating apps, pushing premium features, and matching you with bots… It’s shit like this that gives me trust issues with government, big business, rich people, etc…

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      15 days ago

      As someone who’s never used these apps, matching you with bots?! what the fuck!

      How does that even work and what do you do about it?

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        15 days ago

        As others have noted, they benefit from you being a continued customer - not finding a forever match. What better way to achieve that then never letting you match a real human at all?

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          15 days ago

          Plus, the dopamine hit of getting interested messages and matches from attractive strangers keeps you interested, and interacting with LLMs, spammers, and scammers. And as you alluded to, obviously none of them are going to lead to a relationship…