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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    I was with you until the unsourced claim that tech is dominated by cishet white men. In California nothing could be farther from the truth

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      I am not sure how reputable Zippia (or other sources) are when it comes to statistics but if accurate and similar 2022 the tech industry is still mostly men and caucasian.

      I wasn’t able to find statistics on sexual orientation. There are a lot of companies vagluely bragging about how inclusive they are and not much in the way of stats.

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        From your link, 73% are men, 62% Caucasian, so roughly 45% are Caucasian non-Latin men

        And that’s not including orientation

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          Yeah like I said I wasn’t sure where to get information on orientation.

          I’d be curious how those numbers overlap with average dating apps and match statistics.