Tinder is a proprietary privacy nightmare that requires oneโs Facebook data for functionality. It even has its very own analytics library just to enhance the Orwellian tracking.
You donโt want any of that.
If youโre searching for a partner or a lover, Alovoa is the better corner of the internet to find one. Itโs private, secure, and vitally open-source.
You can find the serviceโs source code here.
Alovoa has an Android and iOS app. Here is the native Android app. Its source code can be found here.
The native Android app was released fairly recently in late October last year, and appeared on F-Droid some days ago. If you encounter any bugs, report them in the Issues section of its GitHub repository.
Iโm not the developer.
Interesting. I had to chuckle though at the fact that the same people appear over and over again on their website with the title โMeet new, exciting people!โโฆ
Iโm sure theyโll get more models (for the frontpage) soon. In the meantime, they have a little more than twenty thousand registered users, and itโs a very young platform.
Internet dating is like the light from poltergeist. Donโt look at the light, donโt go into the light.
Even if itโs open source, itโs still bad for your soul.
I read an article a while back about how one DM on Twitter led to a happy marriage. The correspondents had no prior relationship. Just a curious DM. Iโm not endorsing the use of Twitter here, especially for dating.
Dating isnโt always about marriage, though, and dating platforms are also aboutโฆ casual sex. Yup. One-night stands. A lot of magic can happen via online dating once the connection is there. I donโt see it as inherently bad or evil.
A lot of very personal information is exchanged on these type of sites, so itโs very, very important itโs a private AND secure platform.
I wonder what the user count is in different regions
@ostrich@social.fossware.space The only problem is that thereโs barely much people around my area which for me feels sort of pointless, even though I wish I can be away of such apps that obsessed with tracking my data
A little more awareness, and thereโll be people around you on Alovoa. Give it some time. Tinder is just so horrible privacy-wise.
The fact that anyone using this app is (probably) conscious about privacy and/or Free software makes for an interesting filter.