Mastodon is a dating app and you can't convince me otherwise
@TipsyTentacle Amt. of dates I have gotten on Mastodon: 0
Amt. of dates I have gotten on Tinder: 0
Clearly it's just as effective as Tinder!
@alana
3 - 0 for me ~
@TipsyTentacle SHADDUP! :(
@TipsyTentacle We think the same of IRC tbh. :3
@Freylet meet me on IRC~<3
@TipsyTentacle Have a working theory that any "dating" app that isolates interactions into the immediacy of dyadic intimacy is guaranteed to miss 90% of how courtship happens.
As animals, we evaluate prospective connections (including how to best approach prospective connections) in socially-mediated contexts. Social media is one such context.
Three centuries of message-in-box, message-in-box, message-in-box dating are an aberration that poorly reflect how we fully navigate courtship.
@TipsyTentacle [You matched with Train_Yeen_999]