I recall hearing about Alovoa a year ago and while it sounds nice with no ads or paid features, being open source, and private data being encrypted I have to imagine the userbase is incredibly small relative to other services. Google Play lists it at over a thousand downloads but it's also available through F-Droid so that may not mean much. I have to imagine the userbase is mostly men which might prevent some users from joining or sticking around.

Either way (TL:DR) I'd be curious to see what your experiences are with open source dating apps or even apps designed around making friends.

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[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I used one called The Real World™. It's free to use but, like most open source apps, the UI is confusing and configuration is complicated.

[–] XpeeN@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Real world is open source now?? Where?!

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Compiling it from source is pretty much impossible, but the frame rate is insane.

[–] TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago

Oh, I get it

[–] XpeeN@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

It's ok we can just refactor it to using an interpreted language XD

So why those scientists waste time and money? let them just read the source code -_-

[–] xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

The graphics are normally great, but they glitch out for some users, often to the point of being completely unusable.

[–] gonzo0815@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Free to use? I use a version that forces me to have subscriptions for the most basic things :/

[–] SharkEatingBreakfast@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, that one's expensive. Microtransactions and such. Very sneaky!

[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

Ok boomer

[–] xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

I tried to use this app, but it seems to have a lot of users who are not interested in dating at all. There is an experimental feature called “engagement rings” that's supposed to show an indicator of who is interested, but it seems to be very unreliable.