• MentalEdge
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    1 year ago

    It means someone you swiped away (as in rejected/wasn’t interested) later swiped you right (as in is interested). Dating apps nowadays have a paid feature where you can “rewind” and change which way you swiped someone.

    It’s a scam.

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        1 year ago

        In isolation, sure, being able to access your swipe history and change your mind, would be just fine. On a dating service that actually cared about helping people find each other it would be a no-brainer to provide such a feature in terms of the very basics of the system.

        But the way it’s actually used is to get users to pay for FOMO fuelled micro-transactions to go back to match with profiles that may or may not even be real.

      • @vector_zero@lemmy.world
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        81 year ago

        Seems like a fine feature to me?

        Except you have to pay for rewinds. They probably give you one or two freebies, but then you’re screwed if you legitimately made a mistake swiping in the wrong direction.