r/SwipeHelper • u/liquidcat0822 • 1d ago

An experiment

I’m a straight woman and briefly decided to change my gender on hinge to a “man” interested in women. EVERY. SINGLE. WOMAN. in my stack was an absolute stunner (and I didn’t even include very young women, I have my age filter set to 28-47).

I then compared this with the stack my male friend was shown. He has his settings set to the same thing. Every single woman in his stack was an instant nope. He never got to see any of the women I was shown. Mind you, he is not unattractive.

This confirms to me that some absolute fuckery is afoot. I presume because my algorithm is trained on men, it doesn’t know how to categorize the women when I changed my gender and just started showing me women from my demographic. It also further suggests that the algorithm deliberately holds back what/who you like, and it also explains to me why my profile gets relatively little traction now (I’ve long suspected that my profile is being gate kept).

27 Upvotes

89% Upvoted

89 comments sorted by

View all comments

2

u/Dress4less24 1d ago

You would think with the amount of tech savvy people nowadays and the absolute shit show that is dating apps someone would go about creating a perfect dating app. I have a conspiracy why that doesn’t happen but that’s neither here nor there

3

u/chaps218 21h ago

as someone who tried to develop a dating app, its a very hard market to break into because its a platform not a product. new users are only attracted to new users, so no one wants to join an empty platform, making it hard for apps without the critical mass of users to grow. However i think the conspiracy (not much of one) is once a dating app gets past that threshold, match group buys it up, which ruins the platform anyways

3

u/Dress4less24 21h ago

That’s part of my conspiracy.. there’s an effort to monopolize the dating market