• blarghly@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    If your complaint is “this business won’t give me their services for free”, then that’s not a real complaint. They’re a business, and businesses exist to make money. Last I checked, the price of a hinge subscription for a month was about $30. You could easily spend that much on a few drinks in a night at a trendy bar.

    Is tinder full of bots? Yes. But also, tinder is something of a sinking ship, and the bots keep their numbers inflated while not fighting thr flood saves on expenses. I’ve had much better luck on Hinge.

    • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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      15 days ago

      If your complaint is “this business won’t give me their services for free”, then that’s not a real complaint.

      No, my complaint is that they were doing all they could to force me to pay up, possibly because I’ve been a free user for too long. Yes, I get they’re a company intent on making money, but they already severely limit free users to 50 likes a day while dropping ads between profiles.

      Since I’ve used them a couple of times between 2015-2018, I did see firsthand how it enshittified