Skip Navigation

InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)CR
Posts
5
Comments
1,552
Joined
2 yr. ago

  • It's to push you into paying for the membership. But yeah they totally rip off lazy people.

    I have a GrubHub membership but only because Amazon was offering a 3 year deal last year. I think they may have bought GrubHub...

    Some places also charge more on the services to make up for the cut the online service gets.

  • They were "decent" 14 ish years ago. And they worked a fair amount. I know married friends who met on them.

    That said the Internet in general has fallen off a cliff with enshitification...

    I know people today that still use them and do ok.

    "Free" anything is going to be complete shit.

    Like anything else in life it takes work, during 8 months I was doing it I spent 10-15 hours on it. And that wasn't "scrolling" profiles. I was constantly tweaking my profile, looking for was to improve it. Also when I did "match" someone I worked on my greetings, interesting things to say, etc.

    I would even keep snippets of texts. (The one I was on had a question/answer part.

    Dating is a lot of work for many people.