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I mean.. most people are kind of boring. It's not surprising that most profiles will thus be kind of boring.

The biggest factors I think are

• You live someplace shitty.
• Your photos are bad. This is different from you are bad.
• Your profile has red flags.
• You're writing unimpressive messages.

The apps suck and are a capitalist nightmare, but there's stuff you can do to improve the odds as a free user.

I just remembered some guy on lemmy that was like "i can't get any dates on these things!" and when pressed, he revealed that he'd talk to women on there for a couple weeks, and then was surprised when nothing happened. No shit. You gotta ask people out.

Reminded me of a terrible joke.

Why couldn’t Hellen Keller drive a car?

Because she was a woman.

Wait what??

Is "thinks Helen Keller wasn't real" a new mainstream thing??? I saw RW twitter accounts posting about it

Also anon got zero responses because he didn't send deep cut sitcom references

I had a similar experience with hinge after a 7-year long relationship fell apart. The most vapid, basic profiles devoid of any individual personality. I think the way hinge does their profiles leads to that. I eventually gave up and instead of trying a different app, i just realized that I like being single.

Instead of spending my time swiping on basic bitches, I took up painting, hiking, got back into practicing my instruments again and joined the local symphony and a celtic fiddle group, became more active in niche online spaces and made a ton of friends there, etc.

At this point I honeslty can't even imagine inviting a woman into my life and being beholden to her whims and expectations 🤷🏼‍♂️

What does hiking and traveling even mean? I'm nomadic and spend most of my time hiking. The only people doing the same are retired 60+. I never see anyone my age on trails, camping, being nomadic. I've literally never met someone my age or younger who's a functioning tramp. In the last year I've only met one couple in a schoolie who were <50.

and think Helen Keller wasn't real

wat? I'm not on any dating apps, is this a real conspiracy theory people believe?

I'd love to hear someone who thinks Helen Keller wasn't real describe what they think the late 1800s was like.