In short, is there any FOSS alternative to tinder or an alternative client?
I am in the early stages of developing such a platform. The intent is to use ActivityPub so you can connect instances together. I am still fleshing out the architecture before making an initial release. If you are interested, watch this repository for changes, and feel free to share your ideas for the platform on the issue tracker.
Of course I’m interested, though I’m not used to the workflow of gitlab or similars I will try to help in any way I can. Te Idea to use ActivityPub is great!
Unfortunately there are no good FOSS projects at all specifically designed to meet new people in any capacity. There are only corporate, proprietary, smartphone-centric surveillance engines.
Then we better start someting or else the FOSS comunity will be outnumbered even further in the near future 😅
I agree 100%. If I were a programmer, this would be my no. 1 priority, actually. There are some projects of note, like Alovoa, which has potential, but it’s a niche that needs to be filled.
I like my SO like I like my OS, free
While I like the idea, I think it would become a massive sausage fest at first.
hmm. maybe grindr clone for p.o.c.
I think if you started an app initially as a kind of Meetup clone and then branched into dating features that could help get a user base started.
Absolutely, but we’d have to get it started to change that, lol
So far nope, but there was a bit of talk about getting an alt project started
Well, what can de done currently, without witting a new platform is creating a board on a FOSS site or forum (Lemmy, Discourse, Movim, etc.) for announcements, creating a group/channel on any FOSS IM platform (XMPP, Matrix, etc.) for announcements or even writing a simple plugin/bot to have anonymous random chat. Sure, it won’t have all the features of a platform like Tinder, but that’s not bad. I’m more concerned about the network effect and that it won’t attract people from outside the FOSS community that is quite small.
Even a FOSS anonymous random chat would be great.
I know I commented already but what if you made an instance at one of the fediverse places be like the home site for meeting people? We don’t need to reinvent the wheel here
Not the finest solution, but that coul do the trick just find or be the firs step towards the stand alone implementation.
the thing with dating websites is that they ask our personal data. and i am not sure people in this community like to give away their data :/
That would depend on each person and even so, what about making a FOSS alt for dating apps means we need to share personal data? Each person will have their own privacy threshold and need different approaches. Some people just don’t want their personal data used for monetization, so locally hosting yourself or finding a server that won’t sell data is the only requirement.
plus, like I said, just because dating apps share so much personal data doesn’t mean thats the way to go. When you meet someone in person, you don’t have their whole life to evaluate before deciding to introduce yourself. Same here.
