• WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.todayEnglish
    52 minutes

    I wonder if they have an eugenics agenda too?

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

  • blarghly@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30 minutes

    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.

    • Brgor@lemmy.zipEnglish
      23 minutes

      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.

  • frunch@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4 hours

    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 🤡

    • swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2 hours

      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.

    • siftmama@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5 hours

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

      • NGram@piefed.caEnglish
        2 hours

        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.

  • fonix232@fedia.io
    7 hours

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

  • Delilah@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    8 hours

    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

    • blarghly@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8 hours

      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

      • Trex202@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6 hours

        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

      • SatyrSack@quokk.auEnglish
        6 hours

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

        1. Item one
2. Item two

        or an unordered list

        - Item one
- Item two
        • Trex202@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4 hours

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

          • SatyrSack@quokk.auEnglish
            2 hours

            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: -

  • Semester3383@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 hours

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