4 ms·

Out of all the dating apps Tinder has done the absolute bare minimum to ensure the safety of its members. The number of active fake profiles on there in large

Out of all the dating apps Tinder has done the absolute bare minimum to ensure the safety of its members. The number of active fake profiles on there in large metropolitan areas is mind boggling. They've known this for years and done absolutely nothing to address it. I imagine it would affect the numbers significantly. I have completely given up on the app given the % of fake users who are there to take advantage of someone's loneliness.

coupdejarnac 4y ago
I'd wager that Match has contracted out the creation and maintenance of fake accounts.
- slaw 4y ago
  Match and Tinder are owned by the same company. It looks like only front-end is different. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Match_Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Match_Group
  - coupdejarnac 4y ago
    Yes. I figured everyone familiar with dating apps knows that Match owns Tinder.
technion 4y ago
I'm fairly convinced if tinder actually killed fake profiles it would go bankrupt. Not in terms of total user count, but in terms of female user count. It's already basically a meme to talk about the horrible m/f ratio. The number floating around of 20% female doesn't take into account the high population of "don't respond to messages here, if you're hot hmu on my OF" profiles, which is about one in four profiles here. But moreover the number of crypto scammers is extremely high. At one point I had like eight reading the same script to me on the same day. And tinder actually makes it so you can't report them, seemingly going out of its way to protect this revenue stream.
TrackerFF 4y ago
I have never used any app with more dark patterns than Tinder. It is the worst offender out there - and from that experience alone, I would not count on them caring too much about their users otherwise. It is simply a tool to funnel as much money as possible from desperate people.
- Gigachad 4y ago
  Normie dating apps are horrific for being absolutely loaded with the worst dark patterns combined with the worst userbases. The only one I have used which wasn't terrible is Barq which is like tinder+grindr for furries. No paid subscriptions, no cypto chud scammers, no only fans thots, no fake profiles, pretty much everyone is friendly and will chat.
  - throwaway290 4y ago
    Isn't Barq more of a social app than dating? Though maybe we must blame Tinder for making those two different things...
    - thomastjeffery 4y ago
      My outside perspective is that furry culture is more about socializing than dating; at least by a modest margin.
    - Gigachad 4y ago
      It's a lot of things crammed in to one app. But they have features for filtering people by age, gender, sexuality, relationship status, and kinks. It would be normal usage to use it to find new local friends, finding dates, or just finding people to have sex with. Normally people spell out what they are looking for on their profile.
  - fennecfoxy 4y ago
    Barq is pretty good, have seen a few bots on there but the thing is us furries as a target we're not really any sort of payoff - furries are mostly hip to any sort of scammy behaviour etc anyway and it's also really hard to make a bot that can masquerade as a furry vs "wot up bb click 2 see my boob pic" with a chick profile pic. But yeah it is kind of an eclectic mix of socials/dating/hookups. Not perfect, but so much better than howlr was.

coupdejarnac 4y ago

I'd wager that Match has contracted out the creation and maintenance of fake accounts.

slaw 4y ago
Match and Tinder are owned by the same company. It looks like only front-end is different. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Match_Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Match_Group
- coupdejarnac 4y ago
  Yes. I figured everyone familiar with dating apps knows that Match owns Tinder.

technion 4y ago

I'm fairly convinced if tinder actually killed fake profiles it would go bankrupt. Not in terms of total user count, but in terms of female user count. It's already basically a meme to talk about the horrible m/f ratio. The number floating around of 20% female doesn't take into account the high population of "don't respond to messages here, if you're hot hmu on my OF" profiles, which is about one in four profiles here. But moreover the number of crypto scammers is extremely high. At one point I had like eight reading the same script to me on the same day. And tinder actually makes it so you can't report them, seemingly going out of its way to protect this revenue stream.

TrackerFF 4y ago

I have never used any app with more dark patterns than Tinder. It is the worst offender out there - and from that experience alone, I would not count on them caring too much about their users otherwise. It is simply a tool to funnel as much money as possible from desperate people.

Gigachad 4y ago
Normie dating apps are horrific for being absolutely loaded with the worst dark patterns combined with the worst userbases. The only one I have used which wasn't terrible is Barq which is like tinder+grindr for furries. No paid subscriptions, no cypto chud scammers, no only fans thots, no fake profiles, pretty much everyone is friendly and will chat.
- throwaway290 4y ago
  Isn't Barq more of a social app than dating? Though maybe we must blame Tinder for making those two different things...
  - thomastjeffery 4y ago
    My outside perspective is that furry culture is more about socializing than dating; at least by a modest margin.
  - Gigachad 4y ago
    It's a lot of things crammed in to one app. But they have features for filtering people by age, gender, sexuality, relationship status, and kinks. It would be normal usage to use it to find new local friends, finding dates, or just finding people to have sex with. Normally people spell out what they are looking for on their profile.
- fennecfoxy 4y ago
  Barq is pretty good, have seen a few bots on there but the thing is us furries as a target we're not really any sort of payoff - furries are mostly hip to any sort of scammy behaviour etc anyway and it's also really hard to make a bot that can masquerade as a furry vs "wot up bb click 2 see my boob pic" with a chick profile pic. But yeah it is kind of an eclectic mix of socials/dating/hookups. Not perfect, but so much better than howlr was.