74 points

You know the algorithm shows you to fewer people if you swipe right on everyone

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Yeah for these algorithms you want to show better signals. Choose a sex/age range your not interested in and just swipe left while watching a movie.

Your algorithmic pickiness will improve tremendously.

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But they swipe left on a whole… 3.5% of people! Super picky, that’s probably why

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if swiping right on 14k people got him 14 matches and no dates, i can only imagine the hopelessness of trying to be picky.

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11 points

The thing is, you have no idea how many people saw it. If 50 people saw it and he got 14 matches, that’s actually pretty good! Imagine if he’d been seen by 500 people instead.

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59 points

Have you tried being born wealthy? :-D

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35 points

I’ll try that next respawn

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4 points

What’s the code to unlock it?

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5 points

HESOYAM

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49 points

2 new friends in 4 years? That’s pretty great.

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What a beautiful perspective. I was thirdhand crushed by this data before you said that :)

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3 points

i wish i made a long lasting friend every 2 years or so.

besides, those will give you the connections you need to actually date.

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46 points

Seriously, how do you even get the data to make such graphs?

On another note, I don’t have much sympathy for people who clearly “swipe right on everyone”. I am aware that it’s a numbers game, but have since standards, man.

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Bro he got 14 matches in four years, how can he afford to have standards. If he has any more standards, he will get ZERO matches

Also you can request this data from tinder and bumble support

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10 points

You won’t get any matches if you don’t tell the algorithm what kind of person you’re interested in. It won’t be able to put you with people you’re compatible with.

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11 points

I’m interested in: people that breathe

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4 points

I find that this isn’t actually a successful way to filter or get the “algorithm” to recognize people you might be interested in. Those features are built in, but you need the premium versions of the apps to do the filtering.

I hopped onto Bumble after a few years and nearly every one I get doesn’t match my values or how I swipe. I thought it might work like that, but I get Christian Conservative more than any other demo and my profiles and swipes do not match that type.

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25 points

You are talking to a person with a 0,295623% chance of getting a match…

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1 point

That’s a bit high standards for me.

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2 points

use a simple counter for your left and right swipes, then you just need to count the matches and which ones fizzle out

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42 points

The main problem here: commercial dating apps are not intended to help people find partners or flings. They are intended to make the companies money. Some may initially be functional but enshitification hits them fast, once they have a userbase established.

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I believe the algorithms on those apps purposefully hold back the best matches for you unless you pay for a subscription.

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Honestly. I suspect they hold back the best matches even if you do pay for a subscription, so you continue to do so.

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4 points

Oh, they do. There have been lawsuits. Why would the company want to lose a paying customer?

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I met my boyfriend on OkCupid. That was 5 years ago and I doubt we’d be able to find each other today. The app went from matches based on answering questions to a “hot or not” sleazy hookup tinder clone.

It makes even less sense when you learn that they were never in competition with tinder since the two of them are owned by the same parent company along with nearly even other dating app. You’d think that company would want all its services to be unique in some way so as to encourage diversity in the market but I guess I’ve not got a mind for business.

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Wow that’s crazy. I still remember some of the questions that supposedly made me and my partner 99% compatible. That’s such a drastic shift for them.

Edit for unrelated story: My second highest match was like 97%, but she clarified in her profile that she was looking for a bi third to join her and her partner. OKC kept recommending her so eventually I just messaged her to say “I’m not what you’re looking for but good luck!”

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Unrelated, good screenname :)

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Dude…

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They’re basically all owned by the same company, unless it’s small and niche.

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