Touch some grass dude, humans flirting with each other in public has been happening literally forever. “Oh let’s give control one of the most basic core human activities over entirely to a handful of dating app corporations” my man, go outside

    • jack [he/him, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      I think it feels spooky on large part because we are becoming more and more alienated from normal human interaction

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      A simply solution.

      Only people who you find attractive are allowed to flirt with you.

      • Nakoichi [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        I would be far more likely to use such an app, still feels weird to me but I think part of that is being old enough that I have internalized the stigma of "online dating" that existed before it became normalized.

        Which is also funny because one of my longest relationships started with someone I met playing WoW.

        • kristina [she/her]
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          3 years ago

          yeah i found my bf off an app though it had a search function for premium members that i used after some guy threatened to kill me for not wanting to fuck him that got the police automatically involved and they gave me premium for free for life over it. he like, tried to find where i lived and stuff. was pretty whack.

          so i just searched by profiles that said socialism and found my bf lol

          • Nakoichi [they/them]
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            3 years ago

            I've started to make a profile for tinder half a dozen times and as soon as I come the profile picture part I just close it and give up. I'm even "conventionally attractive" I guess you could say or so I'm told I just get really self conscious and don't know what I'm doing.

            Also fucking holy shit at the "we're sorry you had your life threatened by someone on our app here's a free subscription for life"

            • kristina [she/her]
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              3 years ago

              also yeah i think they were doing that to cover their asses. i accept bribes :shrug-outta-hecks: not like im gonna go to a news agency who would out me as trans to the whole world probably

            • kristina [she/her]
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              3 years ago

              you have no idea how many dudes just look like absolute dogshit in pictures but are hot irl. im pretty sure a lot of women are aware that dudes cant play themselves up at this point

              like my bf is hot as hell and really buff but he took a picture that made him look like a completely different person with a forehead 9x the size of a normal person. idk how he managed such a terrible pic, like :charlie-kirk: energy

              • Nakoichi [they/them]
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                3 years ago

                lol see?! That's what I'm worried about even if it's super irrational.

                • kristina [she/her]
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                  3 years ago

                  if anything it gives you the benefit of the doubt so youll get a first date. at least thats how it was with me. i was just like 'theres no way his forehead is actually that big time to go check'

                  • Nakoichi [they/them]
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                    3 years ago

                    ‘theres no way his forehead is actually that big time to go check’

                    lmao I know you can't but now I really want to see that pic

              • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
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                3 years ago

                Now I'm thinking that the only reason women I met online ever went on a date with me is because they want to see if I REALLY look like Charlie Kirk...

        • kristina [she/her]
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          3 years ago

          time to just make a push for everyone to get on chinese dating apps i guess lmao

          cant be a honeypot if a foreign country is handling it :galaxy-brain: