There is a massive opportunity to use Nostr to build a kind of dating app where people can own their own data. I’d have to think about it for a while for how exactly it could be build, but someone’s gonna kill it with this idea at some point.
This is pretty wild to see, but also not surprising.
It’s interesting to think about how couples used to meet from the perspective of Web of Trust: couples used to meet through their personal Web of Trust (family, school, friends, church, etc), but now it’s primarily online.
Not surprising that divorce rates have increased over the same time period.
No WoT >> no social vetting >> worse couple pairing https://v.nostr.build/iRBvMIDmSMRGPknY.mp4
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Relationships are incredibly important. It's a shame that people's relationship data is owned by large tech and social media companies.
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