• papalonian@lemmy.world
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    I sent an email. We’ll see what happens.

    Edit: I received the following response:

    This has been a social experiment by Oxford University, thanks for participating. Your data has been logged.

    Immediately after opening the email, I received the following text message:

    Hello, how have you been?

    0/10, would not recommend.

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    LOOKING FOR INTERNET GF

    MUST BE
    -internet
    -a girl (negotiable)
    -ready to be chronologically and financially disappointed
    -hungry

    SERIOUS INQUIRIES ONLY

    Please email me at [email protected] Please email me i swear to god i am so lonely and sad i dont even care if you’re doing it as a joke i just needed human contact please someone just talk

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zip
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    Honestly, this takes more effort and is more creative than making a profile on a dating app.

    It is also pretty honest.

    … I don’t think this is likely to actually work, due to the obvious red flags, but it is probably more likely to actually work than doing this same thing on an app.

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    A note about dating apps: most of them aren’t better than this. Their interest is keeping the user clicking, paying for services and coming back. If you find the right person for yourself, you will do none of that. So they:

    • build awful card stack systems with no search function
    • build superficial profile systems with no metadata about personality, habits or world views

    …and of course, with such systems, people fail to find suitable partners. They come back and pay, but society suffers, because someone needs to make money.

    I would vote for a politician who would promise that the ministry of health and social security will order a publicly funded dating site that’s built by scientists, with data privacy managed by the leading university in the country.

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      You want increased birthrate? This is step 1.

      Of course I think that if Musk controlled a government dating site, it wouldn’t show white people any non-white matches. And wouldn’t support anything except two person, male/female relationships.

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    I feel like posting a picture of what you want is kinda vain, shouldn’t they just have a headshot on the flyer? It’s not like this can get any more embarrassing.