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  • NGram@piefed.catoOpensource@programming.dev•Duolicious Adds Dark ModeEnglish
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    19 days ago

    Alovoa works in web browsers too so it technically supports any device with one, including iOS. But yeah I get it; no dedicated iOS app. It does have an F-Droid version and I actually did use it a while ago, before I completely abandoned OLD altogether. Alovoa is unfortunately also not e2e encrypted (afaik, I haven’t looked into it recently) and there’s not a lot of active users on it either.

    Personally I’m perfectly fine not dating and I realized a few years ago that I’d prefer to be single for the rest of my life over using “hot or not” dating apps. Duolicious seems to not be one, which gives me hope that that style will make a comeback and I can stop doing my in-person/online hybrid approach using Meetup to meet cool people irl (no intent for dating; Meetup is not and should not be used as a dating app).

    Maybe I should write my own dating app… (instead of finishing all of my other coding projects lol)

  • NGram@piefed.catoOpensource@programming.dev•Duolicious Adds Dark ModeEnglish
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    19 days ago

    Yes, it seems like all of their source code, including the apps, is open source under a good license. Open source is not necessarily related to privacy though. Being more privacy-respecting than Tinder is a very low bar.

    Personally, I’d recommend steering clear of this until they stop using Big Tech. Dating apps can involve a lot of private data being exchanged so ideally this would be at least end-to-end encrypted (it’s not encrypting data at rest) and available on F-Droid. Sending data to OpenAI is completely unnecessary, but the e2e encryption and app build transparency would be good enough if they can’t leave Google and Amazon for server hosting. It also doesn’t help that the app is just a joke (or so it seems).