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[–] Delilah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 45 points 2 days ago (13 children)

Here are all the sites the match group owns. All of the '* people meet' sites are making me laugh.

Archer Asian People Meet Babyboomer People Meet BB People Meet Black Christian People Meet Black People Meet Black Professional People Meet BLK Catholic People Meet Chinese People Meet Chispa Delightful Democratic People Meet Divorced People Meet Genxpeoplemeet Her Hinge Indiamatch Interracial People Meet Italian People Meet J People Meet Latino People Meet Ldsplanet Little People Meet Loveandseek Marriage Minded People Meet Match.com Match Japan OkCupid Ourtime Pairs People Meet Pet People Meet Plenty of Fish Republican People Meet Salams Seniorblack People Meet Single People Meet Sniffies (minority stake)[63][64] Stir The League Tinder Upward Yuzu

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Probably with shared fake profiles, too.

[–] UPGRAYEDD@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

And they have made the apps intentionaly worse, because a successful dating app deletes its users.

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago

The proof lies in them not bothering to ask, "Why did you reject this person?" If they actually took note, they would zero in on your type immediately and send you only people of that type and you'd match within weeks. They don't want that lol. They want you to hang around...

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[–] kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Are there any that are more independent?

[–] siftmama@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Bumble is the only mainstream one I know for certain is independent.

[–] NGram@piefed.ca 26 points 2 days ago (3 children)

It's not technically independent since Badoo (owned by Bumble) is a very popular dating app too. Those two apps/companies have a weird history (Badoo's owner funded Bumble), but Bumble was also started by an ex-Tinder employee.

And looking at their Wikipedia entries, Bumble seems to be publicly traded with Blackstone owning a significant portion of the company. Bumble also bought Fruitz (another dating app) a few years ago.

[–] StillAlive@piefed.world 13 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Fun fact about Bumble:

Initially, only women were able to start conversation after matching. This 'feature' was removed recently.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/04/a-lot-of-effort-to-get-one-date-bumble-app-makes-womens-first-move-easier

Lol. Lmao even.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 days ago

Tried Bumble. Got a match with a woman whose interests seemed fairly similar to mine, seemed like a very cool person overall.

Couldn't message her and the match expired because they only last 24h or something on Bumble and I believe you can extend once (for 24h).

Stopped using the app shortly after that.

At least on Tinder I'd get matches. Mostly low quality (by low quality I don't mean the person... I mean that we just didn't have much in common), but they existed and I could message them.

Bumble removing that means it's perhaps now usable for someone who's not super conventionally attractive, but has enough personality to kick off a conversation. But it also means that now it's just the same as all the other apps.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I've met my current girlfriend via bumble, back in early 2023. As a man, I was extremely annoyed at how many women would match with me and never send a message, felt like a full 2/3. Seems like half of them skipped the "you, woman, are supposed to start the conversation", never understanding why none of the men ever sent a hi

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[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 days ago

The article doesn't say what you're claiming it says.

While it is not ditching the requirement for women to make the first move, its female users can now send a template question such as “What book or film changed the way you think?”, using the site’s Opening Moves feature.

I'm going to ignore all the problems in the article, like how it pretends that putting in effort to message someone first and not getting a sufficient reply is some new phenomenon that uniquely affects women 🙄 holy shit

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[–] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Grindr is publically traded

And kept in business by a thriving community of convention-attending Republicans.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 days ago

Publicly traded is even worse tbh

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and the other one, eharmony, is owned by a religious zealot

[–] Puddinghelmet@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

And bumble and even a Japanese dating app it says lol

[–] SalamiDommie@lemmus.org 4 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I would be curious as to who owns that company. What investment group?

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[–] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

They must be so happy having facilitated introducing so many people to their true love.

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[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I wonder if they have an eugenics agenda too?

Knowing Epstein, he probably had a hand in this too.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 days ago

Yeah, can't help but notice how a lot of their subsidiaries try to pigeonhole people into racial categories...

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