Last year, I fell into the Fediverse-rabbithole and I really like it so far. We already have alternatives for Twitter/X, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit and so on.

But today I realized, there actually isn't an alternative for tinder. But I think there could be a huge demand for it. This could also motivate people to change platforms, since no one wants to buy tinder premium for a lot of money.

But I think I'm maybe not the first one coming up with this idea. What do you think about this?

~ sp3ctre

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[–] Lemmchen@feddit.org 24 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Not exactly federated, but open source: https://github.com/Alovoa/alovoa

[–] sp3ctre@feddit.org 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Cool, didn't know that one. Maybe it's a good first step. Since it's open source, people can work with it and develope it further.

[–] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The trouble is that with this sort of thing you really do need some form of moderation or quality control (of the users, not (only) the platform) because it will be inundated by fake profiles and nasty content.

As much as I'm cheering for Alovoa I don't see how this is solveable. 🥲

[–] turtle@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Solvable by requiring verification of every user by government ID?

[–] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Then you’d need some organization with resources to store this data? You’d still need to trust someone to do this correctly.

[–] turtle@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Oh, I was more thinking in the context of a centralized service, although technically it should be possible to do this in a federated manner too. I don't think the resources would be an issue, but the liability of holding this data would be. I don't know how that works on sites that currently do this though.

[–] PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Looking at their github and they havnt merged a PR since October. Feels a like it might be dead.

[–] Lemmchen@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago

Last commit was two weeks ago.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

from the images on the front page, i get the feeling the userbase is tiny

[–] Lemmchen@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago

Haha, I don't think those are real users. But yeah, they could have done a better job selecting a pool of stock photos.

[–] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I'm not sure if I posted this, but I figured out they have seeing 50k users, and 1:10 gender ratio - although that doesn't say how many are real people.