Serious question: why in the hell is OkCupid primarily showing me "straight, monogamous" women to match with? Like, what makes their system think a cis, straight, monogamous woman is looking for a polyamorous, bisexual trans woman to date???
They used to have a setting that was "i don't want to be seen by straight people" and you could choose to only view people who are the sexual orientations and relationship structure that apply to you. Now it's all behind a paywall....enshittification of apps that were a shitty experience to begin with! 😖
@JoscelynTransient OKC doesn't actually filter accounts AT ALL. What it does is uses your preferences when computing the match weight, and then hides anyone under 50%. So it will absolutely show you people who are completely outside of your preferences, but match really well on personality tests.
@JoscelynTransient Probably because they lump everyone into either "woman" / straight monogamous people marketable to straight monogamous men, or "man" / person who wants to date the marketable women.
For all these apps that's how they split the demographics internally at least. The "women" are the product, and the "men" are the customers and that's how everything about their operations and revenue is structured. I wouldn't be surprised if their matching algorithms work the same way.
@spots1000 Thing is, it used to be very different. The algorithm was a simpler and more straightforward matching algorithm by questions you answered and you could just filter by gender, sexual orientation, and monogamy/non-monogamy status without the premium version. That was a reason why a lot of queer polyam folks used it.
I suspect you're right and they just decided their customer was cis, straight dudes and didn't bother with us queer weirdos as a customer base 😕
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