[mbix77]

Why has the world not made an open-source zero trust dating app? It's such a basic need it seems for people, but the current app landscape is filled with scams, dark patterns, selling your data, trying to keep you locked in,...

[woooooo]

I'm guessing it gets overrun by spam, scams and porn bots even faster if its a low budget community thing.

[rwmj]

Not to mention the gigantic legal iceberg the first time someone is attacked or worse after meeting through the app.

[Almondsetat]

If I'm going out with someone the last thing I'd want is zero trust. In fact, I'd want the platform to thoroughly confirm everyone's identity

[OJFord]

I'm not sure if I don't understand your comment, or you're misunderstanding 'zero trust':

> implemented by establishing identity verification, validating device compliance prior to granting access, and ensuring least privilege access to only explicitly-authorized resources.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_trust_architecture

[Almondsetat]

I was thinking about zero trust in the context of simply confirming if a user is 18+, where the identity provider only returns a true or false withour exposing more info. For a dating app you'd want the identity provider to confirm a whole lot more, which might not even be present in the ID

[stevekemp]

Back in the day I used livejournal and for a couple of years in a row I setup a matchmaking site that paired users up.

You'd login to my site and see a list of all the blogs you followed, then you could nominate five of them as people you were interested in.

If they did the same, you'd both get a notification.

It was a cute system and because it was restricted to selecting only from people you already followed it was nice and local. The code was released at the time, but has now become lost in the winds.

I could almost imagine setting it up again for instagram, facebook, or similar, but .. getting users would be hard I imagine, and I'm sure the companies would try to sue or prohibit it.

[embedding-shape]

Haven't seen any "zero trust" dating apps but there are plenty of free ones (some operating with a "donations" model, like duolicious). How do you envision a zero trust dating app to work in practice?

[ben_w]

> Why has the world not made an open-source zero trust dating app?

What would that even mean?

Not the open source part, what is a "zero trust dating app"?

Given what we see in other primates, abusive spouses almost certainly predate anatomically modern humans, while gold diggers will have likely existed from the moment we abstracted money in the sense of "rare shiny rock that is a token of power to be spent in the future".