A federated, open online dating protocol could be a real glimmer of hope in a world of soul-crushing IAC monopoly.
Who wants to start the OpenDating 1.0 RFC?
Who wants to start the OpenDating 1.0 RFC?
A natural way to implement this would be to extend ActivityPub and build modules for Fediverse sites like Mastodon that add dating site features. (In fact, ActivityStreams already has support[0] for defining relationships between people, with "Would Like To Know" being a standardised value[1]).
The searching/matching functionality would probably have to be done at the level of an aggregator, like "Social Search"[2], but what's really needed is a privacy-preserving way of only revealing your contact information to someone who matches with you. That's sort of equivalent to the "socialist millionaire problem"[3], so there could be a nice zero-knowledge protocol for implementing this. You might need to couple it with some form of proof-of-personhood / Sybil-resistance, though, to stop someone just generating every possible profile and matching with everyone else.
[0] https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-relati...
[1] https://vocab.org/relationship/#wouldLikeToKnow
[2] https://search.noc.social/
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_millionaire_problem
All the gay dudes are on Tinder instead, and all the heterosexual women that like nerdy men have a gazillion options already, so any blockchain-based or open-source dating protocol would be a total sausage party.
In the NFT field (as in people working in it, not holders) I'd say in some cases it would approach 50% female/male.
Which is deeply funny, because a lot of the "rest of tech" likes to slam it as a "white dudes only" club.
I don't think this is true - at least I haven't heard that criticism in particular. In the NFT world the Vice (I think?) where they went to the BAYC party pointed out how it sort of felt like weird mix of wannabe rap artists, scam artists and tupperware sales parties.
The NFT world is very racially diverse. DeFi does run white/Asian I guess.
Because the artists are also in the art scene, which is a much nicer scene to get into
I think arts administration has a large proportion of female workers, some of whom now run NFT projects
There has been some decent research highly suggesting match optimizes for failure of its customers. It makes sense since in their biz a happy customer us no longer a customer.