The observation about dating apps that needs to keep being reiterated is that their business interest is not to quickly find you someone you will spend the rest

The observation about dating apps that needs to keep being reiterated is that their business interest is not to quickly find you someone you will spend the rest of your life with, because then you'll stop visiting the site and paying them money. Some governments have tried to solve this by offering their own dating apps for their citizens, but another approach would be a community-run dating system, built on the Fediverse. Unfortunately searching across instances and stopping people from scraping all the profiles on an instance, are two hard problems with that architecture, although there are probably creative solutions to both. Another approach that could be tried is limiting the number of introductions a user could make per week, to prove that someone is really prepared to invest time in a relationship. That might also discourage people from wasting their introductions on the most superficially desirable profiles they find, since those people are likely flooded with introductions anyway. Finally, to add AI into the mix (and maybe generate some hype and investment offers), what about having "AI matchmakers"? A user could be required to converse with the AI for a few weeks, answering questions, taking personality tests, reacting to simulated date scenarios, and the AI could apply some super advanced proprietary algorithm (which might be just staff choice and a random number generator to start with) and then give one "match" per week for you to go and get to know properly. The feedback given by each user on their suggested match could also help refine the AI's matching process.