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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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[-] demesisx@infosec.pub 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This could be used for privacy.

https://gitlab.com/veilid/veilid

There’s also a new technology that allows sharing of proximity data without sharing location. I’m not finding it now, though.

Ps. I tend to think that NOSTR is a far better protocol for this type of idea for the same reasons I’m looking at NOSTR instead of Pub/Sub for my federated inventory idea.

this post was submitted on 20 Jan 2025

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