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What's an idea you have that should be an actual thing? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Tourist cities should have hotel rooms by the hour that are actually clean when you just want to take a nap.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (8 children)

Nonprofit versions of vital social tech. If I had the money sitting around, I'd love to start a nonprofit dating site/app. I met my wife on OKC in 2011 before it got bought up and enshittified. It was great and wasn't geared toward just keeping you engaged (they're soooooo bad now!). You'd probably have to gatekeep it with a small fee to disincentive bots, but with a relatively small investment, you could create something really useful for folks without preying on anyone's desperation.

Signal would be a good model for this sort of thing.

Edit: typos

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Actually... a Fediverse OK Cupid clone could totally be a thing... runs away to ponder

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think this might want a clean sheet design. At least as I understand it, there are issues with privacy in the fediverse/activitypub vis-a-vis non-public messages. I think it's also an area where, in order to go the most good, you'd want simple signups and easy engagement (to say nothing of being able to trust that your info has been deleted when you delete it).

Clearly, I'm here and I value the philosophical underpinnings of the fediverse, but I think it might not be the best fit for dating.

That said, if you feel like you can solve those problems, you'd be doing a world of good if you're right.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I feel like we can figure this out with end to end encryption.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Idk, isn't something like OKC like... literally the opposite use case from what ActivityPub/The Fediverse was built to solve?

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