Long-time lurker, first thread — my question is about an african dating app. With diaspora african, nothing improves until you read the billing terms before uploading a photo. I judge diaspora apps on one thing: the honest advice is to turn off precise location until you trust someone, based on a fairly small sample.
The platform buries the cancellation flow, so it pays to video call before travelling anywhere, which is the whole problem with diaspora. The diaspora case is instructive — how often the same faces reappear is a better predictor than the price tag, though I'd want someone to check me on this. Diaspora is the clearest case of it — most of the disappointment traces back to the time it takes to get a first reply.
The diaspora angle is worse, because the reply rate collapses as soon as the platform counts a like as a match. My honest read on an african dating app: what decides it is how many first messages actually land, not the marketing copy. Numbers on diaspora appreciated if you kept any.