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What do you think have we taken for granted before it was enshittified? (kbin.melroy.org)

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Dollar Tree.

It used to have been an unreal experience witnessing the existence of these stores when they came out. Everything for a $1. No joke. The quality of some things have had corners cut and the quantity might've been laughable, but there was a good solid purpose for these stores.

And then I started seeing the signs after a few good solid years of shopping there. The first sign was how they stopped selling eggs. This was before the Bird Flu. They stopped selling eggs because they simply couldn't afford to buy stock and then the price hike to $1.25 happened.

And now they've hiked the prices again to $1.50 for some products in a handful of stores. Additionally, they've incorporated items going from $2 ~ $15 so they have long lost the role and title of being the most affordable places to shop.

Gone were the days.

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[-] Tehdastehdas@lemmy.world 30 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

OkCupid used to be the best for finding matching people: they crowdsourced thousands of relevant multiple choice questions from which you built your search filter: which answers you accept, how important each is to you, and a voluntary explanation. The questions and match results were factored into friendship, dating, and sex.

Then Match Group bought it. First they let it be, but then they:

removed the factoring - no more looking for friends or sex, only complete packages
removed search - no more finding the best matches anywhere on the planet, now you just swipe like Tinder
removed keyword search - no more finding rare interests not included in the questions, like "furry"
removed the search filter - now everything has to be the same to match: both of you must have or not have tattoos for example, never mind what you like - one of my likes went from 95% to 50% match
deleted the voluntary explanations without warning, so no one could back theirs up
deleted ~95% of the match questions without warning
deleted all accumulated likes, which were my best matching people around the world with the maximum couple/friend/sex partner potential except location for now. I had the links saved, but they broke all of them.
they delete matches (mutual likes) if they haven't been messaging in a while, as if that meant they're not a match - no, we're just distant for now
they police inconvenient statements in the users' introductions as the political situation evolves - the day after the mass murderer CEO got shot, the section in my profile containing "fuck the healthcare system - make a better one" was deleted without sending me a copy to edit

Avoid the whole Match Group.

Now that I think of it, the destruction of OkCupid looks like a politically motivated attack against the minorities and intellectual power users who used to flock there.

[-] SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago

Since I started using Lemmy, I've wondered if a federated dating platform could ever work. Obviously you would have to solve the problem of low user numbers though...

[-] Vanth@reddthat.com 2 points 26 minutes ago

Unless it is a dating platform for tech savvy gay/bi men specifically, it would also have to solve the problem of even lower numbers of women who are users. Even non-fed dating platforms struggle to reach a 10:1, men:women ratio of active, non-bot users.

As a woman (just have to phrase it that way), good luck to any who try. Personally, I can't think of anything that would entice me to sign up for a federated dating platform.

[-] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 2 points 18 minutes ago* (last edited 2 minutes ago)

Make the men moderate each other's first messages. You need 3 out of five thumbs up before that first message even goes through. You have to rate five messages before you can try to send one. Make them see how many fucking weirdos there are and hopefully make them behave a little better to begin with by being self conscious about what five other dudes are gonna see. You want five other dudes to see your dick pic on the off chance 3/5 will upvote it? Good fucking luck. Don't listen to me I just worked for a week in a hospital without running water my brain is a smoothie.

I really miss the quizzes though. I reconnected with the guy thought was cool in group therapy a year later when we were both doing much better because we were a 98% match. I didn't pursue it at the time because meeting a partner in group therapy is a terrible idea particularly because you're that fresh into recovery but it kind of vaguely felt like a missed connection. Turns out it was because we're the same fucking person. A year later we were both doing much better and he messaged me like "weird question - did we meet at (the fucking psych hospital we did outpatient at)" and he's probably the only person in the history of ever that that line would ever work for. Thanks OKC!

[-] digger@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 minutes ago

I don't hate this.

[-] Fleur_@lemm.ee 1 points 5 hours ago

Man that sounds really good

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