Dating apps are struggling as users seek organic ways to meet; Match Group reported a decline in its total number of paying users for seven straight quarters
and getting addicted to — AI voices Punisheddonjuan / Don Juan in Hell : ‘Bumble fumble’: online dating apps struggle as people swear off swiping … Bluesky: @chickenpuppet.bsky.social : Wow it turns out if you lose the main appeal of these sites, having a massive pool to choose from, people don't want to deal with it [embedded post] X: Vinay / @leashless : Match Group has a near-monopoly on dating apps. What's wrong with dating apps isn't the people: it's Match Group's business interest to stop people getting what they want. “Matched” people no longer use the apps. They make it as bad as it can be while keeping you clicking. Kyla Scanlon / @kylascan : I'm no expert in dating but I feel like this just has to be a byproduct of post-pandemic social decay and the (now ever-clearer) failed economics of dating apps. It's made (maybe all) relationships transactional in a really harmful way that is compounded by self-centeredness. [image] @_inpractise : online dating up MAUs nearly back to pre-covid levels [image] Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : I never expected that a number of internet usage patterns were actually trends limited to specific generations instead of the new normal. Everyone being on Facebook or using email as their primary way to communicate weren't permanent shifts. Similarly dating apps weren't either [image] @aethelwealh : Shares in Bumble crashed 30% this month after a bad earnings report. Match Group, the owner of Tinder, OkCupid, Hinge etc, has reported a decline in its number of paying users, for seven straight quarters https://www.theguardian.com/ ... Philip Challinor / @pchallinor : Apparently we live (if you can call it living) in a world where “celibacy-forward Instagram personalities” are a thing https://www.theguardian.com/ ... Forums: Hacker News : Online dating apps struggle as people swear off swiping