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I need your help: For an investigation into dating app algorithms, I am looking to get in touch with developers and others who work/have worked for such providers and would be willing to talk to me. Anonymous responses are also welcome. Questions include: What mechanisms are used to keep users on the platform? What ideas/constructs of partnership/matching are embedded in the algorithm? Please share widely! Thank you❤️
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Ich brauche eure Hilfe: Für eine Recherche über Algorithmen von Dating-Apps suche ich Kontakt zu Entwickler:innen und anderen, die bei solchen Anbietern arbeiten/gearbeitet haben und bereit wären, mit mir zu sprechen. Gerne auch anonym. Fragestellung ua: Mit welchen Mechanismen werden User:innen auf der Plattform gehalten? Welche Ideen/Konstrukte von Partnerschaft/Matching stecken im Algorithmus? Bitte teilt das breit! Danke❤️
Anonyme und andere Kontaktmöglichkeiten: s. Bio.
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Please share
I need your help: For an investigation into dating app algorithms, I am looking to get in touch with developers and others who work/have worked for such providers and would be willing to talk to me. Anonymous responses are also welcome. Questions include: What mechanisms are used to keep users on the platform? What ideas/constructs of partnership/matching are embedded in the algorithm? Please share widely! Thank you❤️
Anonymous and other contact options: see bio.
#dating

Ich brauche eure Hilfe: Für eine Recherche über Algorithmen von Dating-Apps suche ich Kontakt zu Entwickler:innen und anderen, die bei solchen Anbietern arbeiten/gearbeitet haben und bereit wären, mit mir zu sprechen. Gerne auch anonym. Fragestellung ua: Mit welchen Mechanismen werden User:innen auf der Plattform gehalten? Welche Ideen/Konstrukte von Partnerschaft/Matching stecken im Algorithmus? Bitte teilt das breit! Danke❤️
Anonyme und andere Kontaktmöglichkeiten: s. Bio.
#dating

After decades of experience with online dating services, I'm convinced that at this point ALL of them are deliberately making themselves useless. It's logical, by capitalist "logic"; if someone meets a suitable match and falls in love, they're lost as a customer - possibly forever.

So instead the services use sophisticated algorithms to keep good matches dangling just out of reach, teasing users with the possibility of love if they would just pay for premium.

In other words, it's classic enshittification.

So I definitely support the idea of a nonprofit Fediverse-based dating service. I don't have the technical skills to be helpful with that (maybe I should try to learn?), but I'd certainly sign up!

FediMeet, FediMeetCute...there are definitely some possibilities.

#enshittification #Dating #Fediverse

After decades of experience with online dating services, I'm convinced that at this point ALL of them are deliberately making themselves useless. It's logical, by capitalist "logic"; if someone meets a suitable match and falls in love, they're lost as a customer - possibly forever.

So instead the services use sophisticated algorithms to keep good matches dangling just out of reach, teasing users with the possibility of love if they would just pay for premium.

In other words, it's classic enshittification.

So I definitely support the idea of a nonprofit Fediverse-based dating service. I don't have the technical skills to be helpful with that (maybe I should try to learn?), but I'd certainly sign up!

FediMeet, FediMeetCute...there are definitely some possibilities.

#enshittification #Dating #Fediverse