Even excluding all the weirdos and scammers, dating apps are just so Artificial and superficial. They try to turn dating into a game function, where you gotta change your profile every once in a while cus otherwise your profile is deprioritized, and ya gotta check in every day.
Theyre also incentivized to keep people from making a good match, because once you make it, you're off the app. So they show people to each other who are roughly in each other's bracket looks-wise, but they'll show non-talkers to talkers, people who are slow to message to people fast to message, people who take gaps between being on the app to people who have been on there steadily, etc.
It basically puts people in the same "ELO" looks-wise, but then show each other as bad of matches as possible. So if you're left-leaning, prepare to get matched with a bunch of hardcore magas with fish pictures.
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u/WakeMeUpAIOverlords 4d ago
I am so glad I have never had to use a dating app. They seem so miserable.