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What do you think about it? I guess that woman to men ratio will be something like 1:20
This kinda app would need at least an attempt at a technical solution to the bot problem. An open source app can’t just pay people to kick bots out. And even the paid apps that can are drowning in bots.
Something cryptographic maybe. Tor is kinda magical, makes anonymity possible while the each machine knows who they are talking to. Maybe something where you can show that you are “a verified user” without showing exactly which one.
Other apps do have some good anti-bot measures which could be adopted for a FOSS project. The problem with a lot of cryptographic solutions for this is that often cryptography is usually more about proving your identity more than proving something about your identity. Tor is also focused on privacy from middle-men, which doesn’t really make sense for a dating app.
I think the challenge boils down to how to prove you’re human without biometrics or other PII. And I think the sad reality is that you can’t prove it. Though you may be able to prove you have unique PII with some sort of zero-knowledge proof…
Either way, it’s not about this specific idea. It’s just that you need some technical way to combat bots, be it cryptography, web of trust, subjective moderation etc. If it’s open source, there will not be enough volunteers to do moderation
LSAG is a good shout but I’m not sure it’s sufficient. It enables anonymous verification of something against a set of known public keys. But you still need to make sure that set of public keys is coming from real humans. It’s not proof that a user has a property (i.e. being human), it’s just proof they are a user.
But yes this is sort of a digression from the actual main problem. The real anti-bot solution is a mix of methods imo.
Maybe it would need to draw on experiences of moderating chat rooms and forums - these are very often done by volunteers who put a lot of time and energy into it because they believe in it.
There is also the “Web Of Trust” concept, where, given that everyone can prove their identity, people can then vouch for each other.
This kinda app would need at least an attempt at a technical solution to the bot problem. An open source app can’t just pay people to kick bots out. And even the paid apps that can are drowning in bots.
Something cryptographic maybe. Tor is kinda magical, makes anonymity possible while the each machine knows who they are talking to. Maybe something where you can show that you are “a verified user” without showing exactly which one.
Other apps do have some good anti-bot measures which could be adopted for a FOSS project. The problem with a lot of cryptographic solutions for this is that often cryptography is usually more about proving your identity more than proving something about your identity. Tor is also focused on privacy from middle-men, which doesn’t really make sense for a dating app.
I think the challenge boils down to how to prove you’re human without biometrics or other PII. And I think the sad reality is that you can’t prove it. Though you may be able to prove you have unique PII with some sort of zero-knowledge proof…
I mean I just took the users word for summarizing the thing accurately, but doesn’t seem too complicated to me https://crypto.stackexchange.com/a/112036
Either way, it’s not about this specific idea. It’s just that you need some technical way to combat bots, be it cryptography, web of trust, subjective moderation etc. If it’s open source, there will not be enough volunteers to do moderation
LSAG is a good shout but I’m not sure it’s sufficient. It enables anonymous verification of something against a set of known public keys. But you still need to make sure that set of public keys is coming from real humans. It’s not proof that a user has a property (i.e. being human), it’s just proof they are a user.
But yes this is sort of a digression from the actual main problem. The real anti-bot solution is a mix of methods imo.
Maybe it would need to draw on experiences of moderating chat rooms and forums - these are very often done by volunteers who put a lot of time and energy into it because they believe in it.
There is also the “Web Of Trust” concept, where, given that everyone can prove their identity, people can then vouch for each other.