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Are we the baddies?

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protocolture ◴[] 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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alecco ◴[] No.44480281[source]
> You can literally go outside and talk to people.

Only in small towns with high trust societies, sadly.

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1. protocolture ◴[] No.44484833[source]
>High trust society.

I usually see this as an anti immigration dogwhistle.

I live in an actual hellhole by these standards.

For 40 years, every refugee or immigrant population was forced to live in my region. Every time the government wanted to do A/B testing on welfare, my region.

When I first wanted to move here I considered that I would need amazing security and reviewed crime stats. OH NO, its a CRIME HOTSPOT. How could I subject myself to that, I would have to live in fear.

Then I turned off "Drug Crimes" in the police statistics, and that completely normalised the results against much richer, whiter suburbs.

If anything we have a greater density of churches, because everyone wants to hear the bible read in their tongue. Theres an islander community just over the main drag from me where twice a year I see like 200 big islander kids dressed in choir costumes being loaded into busses for a big church thing.

My wife literally takes my toddler out for walks unassisted in the middle of the night.

I have no issues talking to people, or being approached by people.