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Is there any proprietary Android app for which you wish there would be an open-source alternative? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Basically, what the title says. Do you use any app, that is proprietary, but either has no OSS alternatives or they're all not good enough? If there is an alternative, what keeps you from switching?

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (12 children)

Dating apps.

We need an open source completely free dating app.

No paying for matches, no limits ...just they're in your town, you look at their photos, you can talk, anyone can block anyone.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I don't really care for online dating, but I remember coming across this. They claimed to be open source.

https://alovoa.com/?lang=en

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm honestly pleasantly surprised to see that this project seems to be rather actively developed.

Which is completely separate from having a meaningful user base (near you), so 🤷

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Which is completely separate from having a meaningful user base (near you), so 🤷

Yep, this unfortunately seems to be a much hard problem

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