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Re:Peter Thiel backs conservative dating app The Right Stuff by zdragnar on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @04:03PM (#30352679)
Even if I accepted your "statistic" (which I don't), this line of logic would assume that half of conservatives also reject every other dating app. It would also call into question whether that segment the market would ever use a dating app in the first place.

Not to mention the discrimination lawsuits which would be immediately filed forcing them to add options for same sex couples, as happened with eHarmony...

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Re:Peter Thiel backs conservative dating app The Right Stuff by bduerst on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @04:56PM (#30353350)
Not quite. New brands that advertise X feature tend to attract audiences that identify with it, meaning any behavior counter to X feature would alienate them. It's one of the reasons why mainstream dating apps avoid doing such politicization.

For a case example, look at Voat [1] which advertised being a free speech platform but alienated their target market when their lawyers made them censor harassing speech.

[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/gy4gzy/founder-of-voat-the-c...

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