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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    Any of the closed source ones I’ve used left me in an infinite loop where I’d get so far and end up back at the flicking through profiles stage. Maybe with open source I could figure out the problem.

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      That would be nice. If it got popular enough it might be a platform where you can assume someone is somewhat tech minded because they use it.

      It could be a baseline for something in common.