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Are we the baddies?

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692 points AndrewSwift | 2 comments | 06 Jul 25 05:36 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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protocolture ◴[06 Jul 25 07:26 UTC] No.44478596[source]▶
>But eventually the market will fix this, right? People will feel sick of being manipulated and move elsewhere?

You can literally go outside and talk to people. There's no moat around dating apps. Human beings continue to exist in meatspace. I am yet to see a dating app contract that prevents you from being casually approached by strangers. Heck matchmakers still exist.

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seydor ◴[06 Jul 25 07:42 UTC] No.44478658[source]▶
> You can literally go outside and talk to people.

You can't . If you talk to modern city people the way you casually said 'hi' to strangers in the 90s , at best you 'll end up in a tiktok branded as a creepy person

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1. officehero ◴[06 Jul 25 08:12 UTC] No.44478787[source]▶
This exchange highlights the huge difference in experience people have w.r.t. dating. Some people get approached all the time and others never get approached and it's always been like that. I blame humanity for this unfair system rather than some stupid app.
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2. protocolture ◴[06 Jul 25 11:03 UTC] No.44479627[source]▶
I remember trying to date a woman in college, she would drop what appeared to me as incredible hints, but if I acted on them she would just ignore me.

We once had a 2 hour conversation about how she just could not find a mexican restaurant in town and would do /anything/ to eat at one. So I found one (willed it into existence) and then she simply wasn't interested.

Thing was, I dont really care about the rejection so much as, it was super easy for me to have relatively deep and interesting conversation with a total stranger. This wasn't even the first one, previous conversations about "Why are cities taking up valuable agricultural land" and "The best gifts to buy a woman are power tools" went down much the same way.

If people are convinced that the conversation to be rejected in cant even take place then I guess I understand concerns about the birthrate a little more.