Are there any non-profit type dating apps that don't have "premium" features trying to get you to spend money in some gamified fucked up way like most of them do?
if not somebody should create one!!
like a Firefox for dating.
if our communist comrades made it, we could slip in commie propaganda and sex positive stuff too. and you could still make money off of generic ads in the app that like, sex toy makers purchase, or cheap ads for like Democracy Now! etc.
Apparently you can use hexbear DMs as a dating app, somehow, gotta be honest - yall are cool, love reading your posts, but I'm not sure if I ever want to be publicly identified as a hexbear user lmao this is my dirty secret
Fine okay some of yall need to also not be a creep about it. This is why I refuse to slide into anyone's DMs lol
I assume around age verification to prevent abuse of minors, or possibly stuff to avoid platforms being used for sex-trafficking? Or maybe not so altruistic, since we're talking about US-based companies.
I'd honestly rather an app that's just for Communists and maybe some very imperialism-aware anarchists, because I got sick of going on dates with people who thought they were leftists but then turned out to just be radlib intersectional imperialists
Not trying to be mean, but an app like that sounds like heaven for bad actors—both state and private. I wouldn’t want to be on a communist dating app, even though I fully agree the idea is rad. It just seems super unsafe to me, unless I’m missing something.
I think a lot of people are looking for, and would use, alternatives that don't try and get you to pay premium style fees for more matches/access/features, you know?
like if you advertised it as "no costs ever, free to use, unlimited matches/swipes/access" I think people would appreciate that and it could get big.
Realistically, it would just be an online forum like reddit instead of a traditional dating app. But reddit already has those forums and they work pretty darn well imo. I've dated a few people off reddit and about half of the people I message are willing to give me a decent conversation.