Tinder is a proprietary privacy nightmare that requires one’s Facebook data for functionality. It even has its very own analytics library just to enhance the Orwellian tracking.

You don’t want any of that.

If you’re searching for a partner or a lover, Alovoa is the better corner of the internet to find one. It’s private, secure, and vitally open-source.

You can find the service’s source code here.

Alovoa has an Android and iOS app. Here is the native Android app. Its source code can be found here.

The native Android app was released fairly recently in late October last year, and appeared on F-Droid some days ago. If you encounter any bugs, report them in the Issues section of its GitHub repository.

I’m not the developer.

  • petrescatraian@libranet.de
    1·
    1 year ago

    @ostrich I did create an account, everyone was, like, thousands of km away. Sadly, it won’t cut for me, even though I don’t like Tinder’s data collection. Guess that for some services it’s either them or nothing.

    • Netto Hikari@social.fossware.spaceMEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      If you’re going to create an alternative, you’ll have to start somewhere, I guess. Especially FOSS projects without real funds for ads in ad networks, etc. Things like that only grow slowly, if at all.

      That’s why I like the federation approach, like with this Lemmy instance. It’s small and maybe it’s not gonna take off, but users will still recieve fresh content from other instances, so yeah…

      • petrescatraian@libranet.de
        1·
        1 year ago

        @NettoHikari Indeed, yea. But if you really are constrained geographically then it’s less useful for the purpose, haha.

        To compare it with the Fediverse - I knew nobody in my country on the Fediverse when I created my account here on Friendica. I just wanted to have a place where I would finally move away from Facebook - with the same goal of socializing with people wherever they might be. And too little people I personally know went here as well. Yet, I stayed because I wasn’t constrained geographically to find people (I’m not sure you’re anywhere close to Romania right now, haha).

        But the purpose of a dating app is not just talking with others, if you know what I mean 😉 . So yea, I do hope it will take off, I’m glad it exists, but it is surely a bigger challenge 😁

        • Netto Hikari@social.fossware.spaceMEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Yes, of course. I didn’t want to make the direct comparison to the fediverse. But the funding to have something like that take off is definitively necessary.

          I’m personally situated in Germany, so I’m not that far away from Romania. I also have my own personal Pleroma instance for similar reasons: I wanted to participate in some “sane” social media and it’s actually pretty good. First, I had a private Mastodon instance and then moved to Pleroma, because Mastodon had too many moving parts.

          Generally speaking, to me, the Fediverse means “less activity, but higher quality conversations”.

          • petrescatraian@libranet.de
            1·
            1 year ago

            @NettoHikari

            “less activity, but higher quality conversations”

            Yea, I love this part as well. Guess that was one of the reasons I was so fond of G+ back in the day 😁

            Germany

            Oh, you’re not far. Hi there! 😊

            But the funding to have something like that take off is definitively necessary

            I get your point now. Yea, I guess I’ll try my best myself as well until I find someone that will stop me from doing this anylonger, haha 😁