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Tinder Launches $499 USD-Per-Month “Tinder Select” Membership::Tinder has rolled out its promised high-end membership, a pricey $499 per month subscription dubbed “Tinder Select,” which includes unique perks like the
That plan better deliver hoes at my address
You got a green thumb zaddy? 🥺👉👈👩🌾
The ability to direct-message others without matching.
So basically your privacy only goes as far as how much other people are willing to pay
According to the article it’ll be opt-out for “some accounts” on the receiving side. God only knows what they mean by that
“Tinder Select Ultra Plus” tier membership, I’m guessing.
Welcome to America friend
Remember: Tinder doesn’t make money if you find love, because then you’d stop using the app. Tinder’s goal is to keep you using the app as long as possible by dangling the possibility of success without ever delivering.
If dating apps were barred from collecting any payments besides a one time entry fee perhaps they’d stop all these anti customers practices.
Good luck getting that to happen. Could probably happen in the EU if it hasn’t already, but in the US, you’d have better luck winning a SLAPP suit against the Cult (“church”) of Scientology in an area where they are legally allowed to file them against you.
Can we start a fediverse dating app?
I’m currently visiting the Ambien walrus writing this so forgive me if this idea is screwy, but I’d love to create a new space.
It would be 99% dudes. Oh wait
Jokes on you, I’m into that shit.
Always has been. Love your crew ;)
Sounds good to me. Maybe it’s just a matter of branding.
Sure, I’ll start one for you for a meager $498/month
A mere pittance my dear…
I think you’re massively underestimating the amount of effort required to keep sketchiness off of a dating platform
I did say that I was on Ambien haha.
I was gonna say it didn’t sound screwy until you mentioned the Ambien walrus, but, apparently, that’s a real thing.
It is absolutely a real thing. I’ve done some wild things on it. But I’m glad the idea itself doesn’t sound bad.
There’s a FLOSS dating platform: https://alovoa.com
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It just sounds like identifying rich sucker’s to be plucked like apples and slaughtered like fattened calves by the trickier woman of tinder.
women are going to start saying they won’t match with guys who aren’t subscribing to this. I guarantee it.
women are going to start saying they won’t match with guys who aren’t subscribing to this. I guarantee it.
I assume they’ll eventually just pay women to chat with these men.
The Ashley Madison approach - hire hookers to meet up with them.
I ain’t see she’s a gold digga…
sayin. Though the way its said could sound like see…
Then they are going to have to earn that highest status rating
For 500$ it better work as a ma’adam in a brothel.
members can choose to display their status with an exclusive SELECT badge on their profile.
Now I ain’t say she a gold digger…
But she ain’t datting no broke ninjas
The “I’m that desperate” batch.
Oh not even that. Back when I used Tinder in 2019, and you were a guy, you pretty much had to buy Tinder gold or whatever it was.
Tinder limit your swipes, intentionally showed you dead profiles, and some other shit I forget.
Same with older people. If you’re older, Tinder costs more.
Tinder is a predatory app. They benefit from you NOT finding a match.
I know there’s no laws that allow the people of the USA to prosecute companies for business models that destroy the fabric of society, and I even fear that kind of law could be abused to prosecute abortion clinics and LGBT rights orgs…but dating apps make me wish there was.
Andrew Tate…PUAs…Red Pillers…it all only makes sense in a world where dating apps are the primary way we meet people.
I’m back on the dating scene in my early 30’s and I try to be hostile to their algorithm by force quitting and leaving the app closed which seems to trigger it to try and be more engaging.
I also tried gold only to have my filters just not work. Why would I be interested in matching someone 6000km away or someone with kids even though I’ve tried filtering them out? Ask Tinder I guess. Why would I pay for a service that doesn’t even work. Now that I’m not paying the “likes” seem to roll in even though I frequently run out of users for my area.
IAC/Match Group owns this space and at this point the cash grab is so openly brazen. I hate it. Part of the reason i’ve folded on online dating and dating in general.
Have more info on that? Are most owned by the same company?
There are people so desperate for a fuck that they will pay this money. Will it solve the problem that the number of (real, existing) women on such platforms is lower than the demand? Probably not.
As someone who’s never used it, what features are there that get paywalled? I have a very naïve idea about what it is like.
Last time I used it, things like seeing who liked your profile and super liking other profiles (normally you get limited number of those and they indicate that you’re really interested), and seeing who viewed your profile.
One major issue is that Tinder is full of bots. The company doesn’t sanitize it cuz it’s in their interest to have men feel like there are more women on it than there actually are.
Well I’m glad I never got into it. Everything about that just feels icky.
Maybe I’m just old, but I like the idea of meeting in real life and progressing from there to be preferable rather than meeting because of an app. That puts the first real life encounter in a weird context, so I think it’s so much more natural if you encounter them genuinely first and then get attracted to each other just a better system overall.
I mean I guess it can work out, but it just seems extremely uncomfortable all around.
Well that’s not dystopian at all
Why do I remember this exact thing existing in like 2016?
Because in 2016 it was a huge deal when they introduced a $5 monthly subscription for a few perks.
Now a $500 subscription triggers about the same level of response because we’ve all been worn down by subscription fatigue so much, so no one is really surprised, but we feel like we should still be really indignant and mad about this.
Subscription fatigue is real. Went to a PF Chang’s yesterday and the host’s desk had a sign inviting guests to sign up for their subscription to “preferred customer” service, something like $40 a month, to get ‘priority seating’ and drink specials. Screw that!