• jtrek@startrek.website
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    2 months ago

    I mean… most people are kind of boring. It’s not surprising that most profiles will thus be kind of boring.

    The biggest factors I think are

    • You live someplace shitty.
    • Your photos are bad. This is different from you are bad.
    • Your profile has red flags.
    • You’re writing unimpressive messages.

    The apps suck and are a capitalist nightmare, but there’s stuff you can do to improve the odds as a free user.

    I just remembered some guy on lemmy that was like “i can’t get any dates on these things!” and when pressed, he revealed that he’d talk to women on there for a couple weeks, and then was surprised when nothing happened. No shit. You gotta ask people out.

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        2 months ago

        That could be a factor. My perspective is limited to one of a man who doesn’t date men. I had some nice (and one memorably, laughably bad*) dates with queer people on hinge, but it wasn’t my primary experience.