Hermes [none/use name]

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Cake day: November 13th, 2024

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  • How is this worse than any other system? If likes are deanonymized you can use that information for abuse anyways. If likes aren’t hidden than attractive users would have to deal with a large influx of likes from people they are not interested in. If you wanted to prevent like spam you could add statistics to users profiles about how many likes they have sent, and the percentage of users they like, although this would also likely lead to abuse in some form.

    I think that at a certain point, users on a dating app will just behave poorly, and attempting to fix every issue with design rather than moderation is a losing battle.



  • Kind of a tangent, but I have been trying to brainstorm how a federated (like lemmy) dating app could work for a few months now, but haven’t had much luck figuring out moderation and preventing abuse. Obviously, showing profiles and likes would be relatively trivial, but allowing people to contact each other gives so many options for abusive behaviors. There is also a reliance on site moderation to not be creeps, and that doesn’t have an easy answer either.

    My best idea so far is that people would make public internet facing profiles where they could send likes to each other, but the other party would not receive any notification of a like. If two people liked each other they could get some kind of notification and maybe an easy way to send off platform communications, like matrix or signal, in order to prevent snooping by site moderators.

    Regardless, this would still suck to moderate and prevent spam.