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The hard to swallow answer here is this:
Dating apps, like all apps, are majorly funded by giant companies, because there's no realistic path to scaling up from 100 users to millions of users without a bunch of investment money.
Say I want to create a new, decent app that takes us back to the days of stuff like early OkCupid which was smartly done and actually worked okay.
Well, if it gets any amount of quick adoption, I'll be going from really low costs to astronomical hosting costs almost overnight. Often, the "checks haven't cleared" as they say and while you've technically been paid, it's all waiting in escrow or bank transfers or what fucking have you and you have giant bills falling due and no way to pay them
That's why this happens to every single app under the sun. They're left making tough decisions and selling out to unscrupulous people.
Because what no one wants to admit is that the funding model to how to make almost anything function on the internet at-scale where millions of people use it is fundamentally broken.
I mean fuck, isn't that why we're on the federated splinter-net where people can justify the costs of their small corner of federation, easing the overall load of financial demand?
Corporate internet is broken and they're chasing ridiculously thin numbers to constantly be making more.
So, you'd probably need some kind of federated solution to not have it be destroyed by corporatized enshittification.
The fediverse as designed is actually pretty inefficient. If it ever were to go to Reddit scale it would melt down.
That's because there's effectively no batching for federation currently ... every single vote from an instance is forwarded back to the instance hosting the community and must be processed individually. So if you get 500k votes on something even if it's from 200 servers, the servers hosting the community have to be able to withstand the flood of votes and store the associated data... And that's just votes.
Worse yet, those votes then get replayed to every single one of those 200 servers one by one. So every server needs 500k vote entries and all the associated traffic ... even if half of the servers are just 1 guy looking at cat videos once a month.
Federating actually is way more expensive than just adding another user as designed.
I'm sure if we reach that point, someone will add a method for batching cross-server communication. That's the beauty of FOSS
... Eventually...
Here's a bug on Mastodon that's existed since 2016 that makes small instances unusable. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/34
That's kinda the exact opposite. Not many people want to use small instances, so not many people are interested in fixing something like that. However, let's say lemmy.world becomes unusable because of too much cross-server communication. That would cause inconvenience to way more people, increasing the likelihood that someone will do the work to fix it.