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Re:Die With Me – A chat app you can only use when you have l... by minxomat on Sunday August 18, 2019 @02:29PM (#20731941)
I see this as a more general group of apps which connect you with people because of some reason. The main attraction is that you don't need to provide a reason yourself.

This is not necessarily bad, in fact I'd count be my eyes in the same group (an app which receives FaceTime calls from blind folks in order for you to help them out)

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Re:Die With Me – A chat app you can only use when you have l... by arkades on Sunday August 18, 2019 @04:19PM (#20732558)
I went to check out Be My Eyes, because that sounds awesome.

It’s free, and they keep the video streams... and metadata, and place cookies, and tracking pixels, as per their TOS.

It’s another one of those “free app so we can collect all your data” plays.

Too bad. It was such a nice humanitarian idea, and now I have to delete it.

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Re:Die With Me – A chat app you can only use when you have l... by ehnto on Sunday August 18, 2019 @03:54PM (#20732427)
Just like #general/#random was often the most active channel on chat networks. Common interests brought everyone to the network, but most people really just wanted an excuse to find some friendship.
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