Bumble and the sexual revolution
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  • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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    5 months ago

    I just want to point out that Bumble's cited reason for allowing men to make the first move now was feedback from their female customers, many of whom didn't like having to make the first move.

    What the fuck is the point of this app then. That’s literally just every other dating app lol. Seems weird to forcefully change a unique niche into something that everyone else offers instead of just moving to a different app

    instead of just moving to a different app

    Now that i type it out, it makes sense now lol.

    • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      I mean they're all the same and they work like slot machines that mostly spit out flaky people, but I met someone on it who's pretty cool and we're just gonna cuddle and kiss and watch anime tomorrow afternoon so I guess Bumble ain't all bad

    • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      Obviously they only did it to keep users around for longer. But I do think, in a vacuum, it makes sense to alter the way a dating app works after it has an established userbase. If you want to cultivate a certain kind of user by having women make the first move, then once you cultivate those users you phase out that feature, you still keep most of the users. It's like if Twitter worked exactly like Facebook tomorrow, you'd still have boomers on facebook and nazis on twitter for the foreseeable future.

      But I'm pretty sure that due to the nature of dating, the userbase for all generic apps just becomes more homogenous over time because the apps suck and people use as many of them as possible to match, with no reason for exclusively using any specific one. Therefore, yeah, Bumble killed its only defining feature.