Here are all the sites the match group owns. All of the '* people meet' sites are making me laugh.

Archer
Asian People Meet
Babyboomer People Meet
BB People Meet
Black Christian People Meet
Black People Meet
Black Professional People Meet
BLK
Catholic People Meet
Chinese People Meet
Chispa
Delightful
Democratic People Meet
Divorced People Meet
Genxpeoplemeet
Her
Hinge
Indiamatch
Interracial People Meet
Italian People Meet
J People Meet
Latino People Meet
Ldsplanet
Little People Meet
Loveandseek
Marriage Minded People Meet
Match.com
Match Japan
OkCupid
Ourtime
Pairs
People Meet
Pet People Meet
Plenty of Fish
Republican People Meet
Salams
Seniorblack People Meet
Single People Meet
Sniffies (minority stake)[63][64]
Stir
The League
Tinder
Upward
Yuzu

If you want each entry to appear on a new line, you need to put two spaces at the end of each line.

Line 1
Line 2

If you want a paragraph break, use two newlines

Paragraph 1

Paragraph 2

Yep. it's essentially a ridiculous, yet somehow legal racket.

Archer

Asian People Meet

Babyboomer People Meet

BB People Meet

Black Christian People Meet

Black People Meet

Black Professional People Meet

BLK

Catholic People Meet

Chinese People Meet

Chispa

Delightful

Democratic People Meet

Divorced People Meet

Genxpeoplemeet

Her

Hinge

Indiamatch

Interracial People Meet

Italian People Meet

J People Meet

Latino People Meet

Ldsplanet

Little People Meet

Loveandseek

Marriage Minded People Meet

Match.com

Match Japan

OkCupid

Ourtime

Pairs

People Meet

Pet People Meet

Plenty of Fish

Republican People Meet

Salams

Seniorblack People Meet

Single People Meet

Sniffies (minority stake)[63][64]

Stir

The League

Tinder

Upward

Yuzu

You can also put a backslash before the new line

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and the other one, eharmony, is owned by a religious zealot

For a list of items like this, it makes sense to use either an ordered list

1. Item one
2. Item two
3. Item three

or an unordered list

- Item one
- Item two
- Item three

neither of which require extra spaces or extra newlines

Are there any that are more independent?

Bumble is the only mainstream one I know for certain is independent.

Makes perfect sense! How many companies would you expect to own all the popular dating sites? 5? 10?

Of course not! There should only be one company controlling entire markets, it's the American way 🤡

The problem is converting the list to point form. I would have used bullet points if it was easier than spacing

And the best part? Matching algorithms don't do shit. You can't actually predict attraction and interest based on matching character traits.

It's not technically independent since Badoo (owned by Bumble) is a very popular dating app too. Those two apps/companies have a weird history (Badoo's owner funded Bumble), but Bumble was also started by an ex-Tinder employee.

And looking at their Wikipedia entries, Bumble seems to be publicly traded with Blackstone owning a significant portion of the company. Bumble also bought Fruitz (another dating app) a few years ago.

A bit of an advanced technique that I use often: Paste the list into a text editor like VSCodium, then use find/replace (in regex mode) to add a hyphen and a space to the beginning of each line, then copy all and paste that into Lemmy.

Find: ^

Replace: -

The only "success" I've ever had on a dating app was one called "Boo", but it's possible that I suck at dating apps.

Federated dating app when?

OKCommune?

I tried Yuzu, but the only one who wanted to fuck me was Nintendo.

okcommie

I wonder if they have an eugenics agenda too?

Knowing Epstein, he probably had a hand in this too.

When someone wants to moderate it.

Hint: ain't nobody want that

Hot take: match group is actually doing a pretty damn good job of trying to get you a date. The constant changing fashions of dating sites indicates that the company's sites don't have a stranglehold on the market like, say, facebook does. They have significant competitors in the form of Bumble, Grindr, Feeld, Badoo, etc. People on site like Lemmy often concoct conspiracies about how the sites are somehow nefariously keeping your soulmate from you.

But they arent. Dating sites arent difficult because the companies are evil (sure, they are evil, but thats not why dating sites are difficult). They are difficult because people are difficult.

The thing is, they're not incentivised to find you someone permanent because then you'll leave the site. The less competition they have, the less reason they have to keep a good reputation.

What a confidently ignorant statement.

It's just trying to get you engaged to ultimately pay. You can have matches and they'll be super far in the cue forcing you to buy matches or access to seeing them.

The prices to make the apps functional are incredibly high.

Besides, I don't think they need to engineer anything to be bad. Dating random people outside your social network and interests is just not a recipe for success. Much easier to date people in the same environment as you: work, school, friend group etc...

Dating apps cant do that. Matching people you kinda know is really weird and awkward lol

And they convinced several generations that using them is necessary for dating.

Absorbing other companies is illegal under anti-trust, but taking a company as a subsidiary is not, which is the workaround for anti-trust. It gives the false illusion of competition being available.

Probably with shared fake profiles, too.

Or in vim you can do the same regex replace thing with

:%s/^/- 

Or as I like to do sometimes without regex

:%norm I- 

Grindr is publically traded

Fun fact about Bumble:

Initially, only women were able to start conversation after matching. This 'feature' was removed recently.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/04/a-lot-of-effort-to-get-one-date-bumble-app-makes-womens-first-move-easier

Lol. Lmao even.

Besides, I don't think they need to engineer anything to be bad. Dating random people outside your social network and interests is just not a recipe for success. Much easier to date people in the same environment as you: work, school, friend group etc...

Dating apps cant do that. Matching people you kinda know is really weird and awkward lol

That's not what people who used dating apps prior to enshittification (before 2019, I guess) say.

And they have made the apps intentionaly worse, because a successful dating app deletes its users.

Nah matching algorithms are ineffective because a) people don't know what they want and/or b they're wildly unrealistic about what they want and/or they're delusional about their market value.

B is evidenced by the much joked about every woman wanting a 6'4 30yr old earning 7 figures who is good looking,single (not cheating) kind and funny (maybe 0.01% of the dating pool at most)

C is self evident - 3s who think they're 10s or the woman with 3 kids from 3 fathers not recognising that's a red flag.

A is the one that confounds the matching system though. People will say they want X, but have spent the last decade dating Y. The pic and profile thing is supposed to get ppl to reveal their actual preferences but it doesn't seem very effective

No, there's actually no evidence that they work. Period. Not because people don't know what they want--although that's true--but because they can't predict how people will feel in person. Attraction is incredibly complicated, and it doesn't come down to checking a whole lot of boxes. The idea of 'market value' is pure incel bullshit; that's the reason that incels do things like looksmaxxing, and it's also the reason that it utterly fails.

At best, they can help screen people for core values, e.g., I'm not going to be able to get along with an evangelical christian, and I'm certainly not going to be able to date anyone that believes that firearms should be banned or heavily restricted. But even that's difficult, because people that seem to have radically different values can still have good relationships with each other.

Most of it is a placebo effect.

https://hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/i4eb4e8b/download/pdf

Moderation would be a nightmare, especially since Lemmy is used within many jurisdictions.

Our date

The Bumble IPO was when I knew online dating as a business was done. Look up the stock and pour one out for anyone who bought it five years ago.

It's one giant database with different filters for each website.

Other than privacy concerns, I dislike the consumption aspect. I see them swiping and it looks like they're shopping.
I know some people have found meaningful relationships on Tinder, but I can't get over it.

I wonder if so many using it almost as the default way of dating makes it harder to find someone for those who want to avoid it.

Publicly traded is even worse tbh

Tried Bumble. Got a match with a woman whose interests seemed fairly similar to mine, seemed like a very cool person overall.

Couldn't message her and the match expired because they only last 24h or something on Bumble and I believe you can extend once (for 24h).

Stopped using the app shortly after that.

At least on Tinder I'd get matches. Mostly low quality (by low quality I don't mean the person... I mean that we just didn't have much in common), but they existed and I could message them.

Bumble removing that means it's perhaps now usable for someone who's not super conventionally attractive, but has enough personality to kick off a conversation. But it also means that now it's just the same as all the other apps.

It somewhat is for some people. Like where are you going to meet people of the opposite gender? I don't think most women want to be hit on at work, gym, grocery stores, whatever. Men are starved enough for attention that many of us will appreciate any, anywhere, anytime, but I'm not into guys.

We need a real-life amulet of Mara tbh.

They must be so happy having facilitated introducing so many people to their true love.

And kept in business by a thriving community of convention-attending Republicans.

Congratulations, I guess.

I've seen adds gor duolicious on 4chan, it's allegedly open source

...really? That's your takeaway from this?

Someone needs to patch that hole but we know the current government won't...

anti-trust

As if that were a thing anymore.