This is just a thought I had that I wanted to bounce off people who know more about ActivityPub/the fediverse— would it be feasible (and would it make sense) to build an open-source, ActivityPub-compatible dating app as an alternative to Tinder/Bumble/etc.? And if so, what could that look like? Obviously the small userbase would be an issue, but I feel like there’s enough frustration with the mainstream apps that there’d be at least some migration if a good decentralized & non-commercial option existed. I know I’d use it. What do y’all think?

  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    If it would make sense. …

    It kinda does make sense. You have specialist dating services:

    • Kinky
    • Uniform dating
    • Pensioners
    • At least one newspaper had a dating service for people who were politically similar
    • Sugar daddies

    And on and on.

    So each of those could be an instance so people with similar… needs are grouped together but it’s federated, so you could be on a Democrat dating instance but also throw your hook into the pool of pensioners or Californians, etc, etc.