i recently exposed myself to dating apps for the first time in my life. how the fuck do you guys use this slop? everything is behind a paywall or "blurred" or "bleh bleh you can't like this profile because it's 'curated'".am i missing something or am i supposed to just shell out 50 bucks for this crap??post open source FOSS alternative dating platforms please.
>>43789113>how the fuck do you guys use this slop?i dont
>>43789113ofcourse they are slopmeet someone on a game
>>43789129For 24 years I resisted downloading these apps because I always figured they were BS and very inorganic. However it's impossible to organically meet someone these days especially if you have a job and don't have time to attend things or go places. I spoke to a friend about this and she was like "oh just download taimi its not that bad blah blah". I thought about it for like a week and then took the plunge and fed that app my pictures and bio. Now yeah there's a few cute people on there and you can like them but it's also supposed to show who liked you but it blurs their pic so you can't tell unless you buy the gold package. like bro its useless if you can't see who liked you lmao. I knew there would be some paywalls but I didn't think it would be this bad.>>43789140i don't play many games and i'm not trying to pull edgy 14 year olds from minecraft.
>>43789187All apps have a buy in and the buy in works. Sending the first message via a buy in is your best bet to attempt connections.If you swipe and make attempts every weekend for about a month (aggressively) and make sure to limit the pool to people you are genuinely interested in, not just idiots who you want to fuck, you'll be able to literally get through the entirety of your region and won't have to bother anymore. Then you just wait up to 6 months as all those people slowly bother checking and redownloading and checking the apps and you get replies.I'm literally in Seattle which is probably second only to Portland for taimi and could get through everyone and met my gf on there.
>>43789140Missed you Kassie.
>>43789113they have everyones balls in a vice grip because the only way to socialise and experience fundamental human warmth and connection is through dating apps because talking to strangers in public places is a social faux pas now. in 20 years its gone from 5% of people meeting through online dating to 95%
>>43789375Giving everybody smartphones was the ultimate cattlefication and a massive mistake. Tim Apple and our friends at Google have irreparably damaged society for their own benefit. These fuckers have made it impossible to live without a smartphone (no 2fa? no banking for you). This shit is a mind game and I'm just tired of it. The human brain wasn't designed for this amount of bs.
>>43789113>post open source FOSS alternative dating platforms please.based but would turn immediate sperg4sperg(girl(male)) sausage fest with the exception of the occasional hakerspace trannybrained cisles
All i see on there are poly hons living 8 hours away from me
>>43789113Ur my girlfriend now, no more dating apps required.
Yea dating apps are a fucking scam atp. Try finding a partner on tttt, who wants to date a boring real life person anyway
>>43789375It's not that hard to change that, just let men know they won't be called rapists for saying hiTurns out demonizing social interactions has consequences
Met my bf on grindr. Maybe you're ugly
Wait until you actually DO pay for it and they immediately make the thing you paid for free for all users and find a way to charge you for something elset. fell for it once, won't fall for it again
>>43790836Dating apps never give the premium features to those who don't pay. What did you experience that made you think otherwise ?
>>43790898I just told you that they did, and then made a previously free feature paywalled, what reason would I have to make up such an elaborate lie?
>>43789113that shit shows me people who are super far away 90% of the time and whenever it's someone nearby i can't like them without paying for itat least it isn't as disgusting as grindr
>be me>tranny, but passable>decide to give taimi a shot>its literally just grindr with a swipe system>people constantly send dick pics>dl people>completely overly sexual zero actual interest in going out>delete itShit was so annoying good riddance. It felt degrading to use.
I met my husband on fetlife
>>43790796Unironically? It's hard to find dates who are from Canada.>>43790826I mean if you're into the avg middle aged fat guy, you'd have a bf in about 2 minutes.I look a little weird and maybe a little uncanny but I'm not ugly.>>43791100yeah u have to skip the cuties bc of the paywall so annoying>>43791134ancientfag
>>43791727I mean I think meeting someone from here would be awesome. You'd prolly get along and have similar interests and stuff. There has to be a decent chunk of canadian trannys here. God I wish I can meet a cute neet girl on here...
>>43791879They're always from Toronto which is too far
>>43791120taimi is so fucking gross. I can't belive they actually put those suggested conversation starters in the app. They're written like a 15 year old boy harassing some poor woman.
>>43792206I'm pretty sure it's like 1 or 2 guys (they are definitely guys) trying to figure out how human interaction works by trial and error, the number of insane "experiments" they push on users defies logic unless you assume the people running the company are fully-fledged sociopaths
>>43789358holy shit you’re still around? are you finally on real E
>>43789113i actually had some good luck pretty quickly on bumble.the rest of them are garbage though
>>43792206>hey :)>hii>hey beautiful>u cute
>>43789113if you use dating apps to find a partner you aren't thinking logically. dating apps make money from you using the app. if you find a partner, you stop using the app. if you feel desperate and hopeless, you will keep using the app and possibly pay for premium subscriptions or whatever. therefore one can clearly deduce that dating apps are not meant to help you find a partner, but to make you feel desperate and hopeless. the exception to this is most gay dating apps, which are actually designed for you to most efficiently find freaks near you who you can fuck. this is because most gay men are not looking for long term relationships, and will continually use the app after using it to have casual sex to have even more casual sex.but if you're not a gay man, or if you are a gay man looking for anything other than casual sex, you should not use dating apps.
>>43789113used it for t4t over last summer and went on a few meh dates but eventually met my gf off of ithad to pay out the ass for itwon't use it again but it worked for me ig
>>43793002>dating apps make money from you using the app. if you find a partner, you stop using the app. if you feel desperate and hopeless, you will keep using the app and possibly pay for premium subscriptions or whatever.Just another cash grab>but to make you feel desperate and hopelessIt feels like a fucking humiliation ritual. Might as well make a late night TV show out of it where we all point and laugh at me while I get bombarded by grandpas, hons, and polycules. It would be hilarious.>but if you're not a gay man, or if you are a gay man looking for anything other than casual sex, you should not use dating apps.I wish I was an average gay man looking for casual sex.
>>43792015east or west coast?
>>43794259West
most of them are owned by the same company anyways they've been shit forever
>>43789454Incredibly based and doomer-pilled. Friendships at least still seem to function decently well, relative to romance. But good god the damage to romance is palpable. “Dating” is barely any different from browsing Amazon for your next useless Chinese toy, and after a month or two you’re just gonna trash whatever you got anyways and then repeat the cycle
>>43789113i met my bf there 3 years agowe have 3 dogs and live together nowdid it turn to shit or was it always shit
>>43789454I've gone amish. Use cash for everything, paper maps, only browse the web on a PC.
>>43794565I think it turned to shit in the last two years. Apparently it used to be better.
>>43794500Met my bf as a grindr hookup last July and we've been "official" since Christmas eve, it's not all terrible.
surprisingly met some nice people on that app. but yeah it's like 95% old ass chasers lmfao. i would be mad as fuck if i were a cis lesbian trying to find someone on taimi.
>>43789113Don't use any apps made by this company.
>>43792247Two years now sweetheart. You're old.
Brah who tf are these ppl
