I recall hearing about Alovoa a year ago and while it sounds nice with no ads or paid features, being open source, and private data being encrypted I have to imagine the userbase is incredibly small relative to other services. Google Play lists it at over a thousand downloads but it’s also available through F-Droid so that may not mean much. I have to imagine the userbase is mostly men which might prevent some users from joining or sticking around.
Either way (TL:DR) I’d be curious to see what your experiences are with open source dating apps or even apps designed around making friends.
I was with you until the unsourced claim that tech is dominated by cishet white men. In California nothing could be farther from the truth
I am not sure how reputable Zippia (or other sources) are when it comes to statistics but if accurate and similar 2022 the tech industry is still mostly men and caucasian.
I wasn’t able to find statistics on sexual orientation. There are a lot of companies vagluely bragging about how inclusive they are and not much in the way of stats.
From your link, 73% are men, 62% Caucasian, so roughly 45% are Caucasian non-Latin men
And that’s not including orientation
Yeah like I said I wasn’t sure where to get information on orientation.
I’d be curious how those numbers overlap with average dating apps and match statistics.
I’ll admit it’s anecdotal, but it is absolutely my experience having worked in tech for 15 years.
Maybe “dominated” is an extreme word, but I would put money on “over-represented”.