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Re:'It's quite soul-destroying': how we fell out of love wit... by Fricken on Sunday October 29, 2023 @08:36AM (#38057979)
Competition is supposed to give us choice. Instead, when one competitor discovers a cheap trick, the rest have to follow suit to stay alive, or at least believe they do. Hence there are a half dozen dating apps that all offer the same fucking swipe right garbage. OKCupid was pretty good, before the ubiquity of smartphones.
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Re:'It's quite soul-destroying': how we fell out of love wit... by posix86 on Sunday October 29, 2023 @09:32AM (#38058469)
In case of dating apps, the issue is that match.com owns all of them.
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Re:'It's quite soul-destroying': how we fell out of love wit... by userinanother on Monday October 30, 2023 @11:21AM (#38070579)
The cheap trick is to buy your competitors
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Re:'It's quite soul-destroying': how we fell out of love wit... by red-iron-pine on Monday October 30, 2023 @12:34PM (#38071801)
smartphones aren't the problem, it's that the same company owns all of them and has an incentive to milk their customers.

match.com doesn't own the local bar, and that's why it's probably a better way to get laid

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