[dougmwne]

These apps have sounded like an incredible cesspool for a long time, though I have been recently hearing they are even worse.

Honestly, I think the very concept is broken from the start. Neurotypical people do not need to use online dating or hookup apps. In fact, it robs much of the fun out of the experience. Meeting people in person, seeing how they interact with you, with friends, with others, how well they pick up on signals and how they make you feel and letting that pheromonal magic work is how our species has been doing these things from the start.

The normies should polish back up their social graces and head back to the bar and leave the online dating for the folks for whom it really is the best option. If we rob the apps of their mass market appeal, the profit model can collapse and online dating can go back to the niche it belongs in.

[gnicholas]

Online dating can be useful for filtering for specific characteristics. That’s why I liked old OKC. The current iteration of these apps seems much less useful in that regard.

[7bit]

> Neurotypical people do not need to use online dating or hookup apps

I stopped reading at the backhanded insult.

[fourier456]

yea dating apps can be useful for other groups, lgbt, finding people with cultural connections, etc.