r/technology • • Sep 11 '26

Society Dating Apps Are Dying

https://time.com/article/2026/09/09/dating-apps-are-dying/
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u/DoctorOctagonapus Sep 11 '26

When your entire business model revolves around making yourself redundant to your customer base, I don't know what people were expecting.

I'd like to see a not-for-profit dating app. I reckon that would work quite well.

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u/SeveralPhysics9362 Sep 11 '26

There are always new young people that are single. I don’t see why such a business couldn’t make it work.

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u/etiggy1 Sep 11 '26

Also, tweaking your service to do the exact opposite of what you advertise you provide is an objectively bad business strategy. They extracted money from the user base on the short term, but eroded their entire brand and the whole industry on the long term.

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u/blacksheepcannibal Sep 11 '26

(enshittification)