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As opposed to for-profit, ad-driven, surveillance capitalism companies with a demonstrated interest in short term profits and hoovering all the data they can?
by Syonyk 3y ago
As opposed to for-profit, ad-driven, surveillance capitalism companies with a demonstrated interest in short term profits and hoovering all the data they can?
Yeah.
I'd be willing to take that risk.
Don't get me wrong. I don't think the government is a good group to do this. I just think they're a less-bad group than the usual parties.
- prepend 3y agoI have never used a government web site that was better than a marginal ad driven site. I can barely pay my trash bill and can’t imagine a dating app run by any aspect of US federal, state, or local government.
- kwhitefoot 3y agoTry websites run by other governments.
- prepend 3y agoSadly, that’s not really helpful as only US dating sites are relevant for me.
- pertymcpert 3y agogov.uk is widely regarded as being better than private websites. You can do anything there and the UI doesn't suck. it doesn't have to be bad, it just needs some effort and thought.
- amatecha 3y agoEnjoy: https://www.canada.ca/en.html https://www.canada.ca/en.html / https://design.canada.ca/ https://design.canada.ca/ https://www.government.nl/ https://www.government.nl/ https://www.nasa.gov/ https://www.nasa.gov/ https://vancouver.ca/ https://vancouver.ca/ https://richmond.ca https://richmond.ca https://www.gov.uk/ https://www.gov.uk/
- throwaway2037 3y agoI am neither British, nor a shill, but the team behind gov.uk is pretty amazing. They have an excellent blog that explains about their design and tech processes.
- prepend 3y agoI like the nasa site, but it’s not really transactionally useful.
- nonrandomstring 3y agoThis might be heresy to say around these parts but arranged marriages in Asian countries are typically successful and happy. Note there is a world of difference between arranged and "forced" marriages. Yes, there are downsides to what is seen in the "secular west" as an illiberal over-involvement of families. 'Honour killings' and other regressive horrors can occur. But they're not the norm. Plus side is that healthy, supportive involvement from both sides of a family is super valuable. But why stop at the family? Throughout most of human history the community, the village, respected friends etc, have held a really important place in matchmaking. Just read some Jane Austen :) We like the illusion of total independence and choice. In 2024 we can have that. And thank goodness we've gotten past those old suffocating social norms that kept people in traps of class and normative gender roles. But the model of isolated autonomous Bayesian-utility-maximising actors rationally selecting each other ... is a crock. We just don't do that. As soon as we get a serious date, what is the first thing we do... introduce them to our friends for approval! So sure, there are any number of groups from which we could take healthier advice than from a for-profit company that feeds on loneliness and isolation, including maybe a benevolent government that funds services which ultimately result in better mental health and social stability.
- watwut 3y ago> This might be heresy to say around these parts but arranged marriages in Asian countries are typically successful and happy. Estimated rates of domestic violence are pretty high in those countries. That is the thing, if you make divorce socially costly, people will stay together whether happy or not.