Alovoa - Meet new, exciting people!
alovoa.com
Meet new people in your area, absolutely privately using open-source technologies. You're only a few clicks away to find new friends, dating and sexual partners. Looking for a girlfriend, boyfriend, quick hookup, one-night stand or just someone with the same interests? No problem!
    • WalkableProgrammer@lemmy.world
      8·
      1 year ago

      I agree but thinking about it, it’s probably the service that should be open source. Tinder and tinder parent company is messing up dating for an entire generation

    • smallcircles@lemmy.mlOPM
      5·
      1 year ago

      Dating-like apps come up in fedi discussions quite often. They have interesting aspects, for instance where obviously privacy is a big concern and where current generation of federated apps aren’t adequate for dating. And how do communities / instances establish their trustworthiness? There are kinds of ‘dating’ were the requirements can be less severe. Like “Meet new Friends” kind of services where e.g. you seek folks for collaborative gameplay in some MMORPG or something.

      • Endlessvoid@lemmy.world
        41·
        1 year ago

        This is interesting, I struggle to see how/why it makes sense as a federated service. What does the person hosting the instance get out of it once they’ve found a partner? Seems like an open source dating app would be better suited to a p2p implementation.

  • smallcircles@lemmy.mlOPM
    3·
    3 years ago

    Copying Github comment in response to @naturzukunft who asked:

    “What are the features, that should be supported by activityPub?”

    I have no idea @naturzukunft just came upon this issue. But there are interesting opportunities.

    One would be where anyone could spin up their own Instance and become part of the larger federated Dating network. They might give their own instance an unique twist making it interesting for specific groups to join a particular instance. Dating Profiles might federate across whitelisted instances and only be visible to its member. Privacy should be quite important and personal exchanges should be private, maybe even to admins (though that may facilitate abuse, it’s a tricky thing, but interesting to consider).

    There’s a lot of commonality to some of the issues that the Federated Hospitality Exchange movement has to solve, i.e. Guest + Host exchanges are private, PII (addresses) are too, and Guests and Hosts need to find each other based on certain criteria (Metadata search?).

    The TrustRoots platform has the concept of ‘Circles’ and their theme (e.g. ‘cooking’) might span multiple instances, which is interesting, as an actor (e.g. as:Group) is tied to a domain name via its ID. Alovoa may have a similar concept, where e.g. LGBTQ+ are separate groups. Maybe “Community has no Boundary” offers solution here. There may be nested groups, e.g. people flocking together within the larger umbrella ‘Queer’ or XYZ-topic groups.

    What may be cool, besides ‘mindlessly swiping profiles’ is to offer safe social spaces where groups of people discuss together and get to know each other in other than 1-on-1 context. Might be done with local-only posting, such as implemented in Hometown.

    In FediHospEx we create these simple models of how current platforms work to find likely candidate concepts for federation. See the summary wiki post for that and this website page.

  • TheObserver@lemmy.world
    97·
    1 year ago

    Oh yay look at this another dating app. So we will have even more bots, even more horny men and MAYBE 10 woman that are actual woman and not some creep pretending to be one. Sorry man but making a dating app where mostly nerds will go will just end up with that situation.

  • Woodyboye@lemmy.world
    42·
    1 year ago

    I dont think it matters where its at, dating apps suck. Not because they arent federated, but because realistically, most of the people using it wont get anything out of it. And limiting it to such a space where your userbase isnt the general populace makes it where youll only get a handful of times it may even work at all.