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>It's astonishing me how bad the Grindr tech is and how abusive the company is and yet it still persists as the most popular gay hookup app.

I wonder why the other big apps don't use their own tech to make a separate gay hookup app. The only thing I can see, other than possibly anti-gay bias, is that they see the market as not being worthwhile financially due to other reasons.

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there are plenty of competing apps. they simply don't have the install base grindr has. it was the first to market well before tinder. other apps do exist particularly in central and eastern europe with local tech and install bases but they don't have the same reach.

also it's a bit disingenuous to call grindr a dating app, it's almost purely a sex hookup app but they would rather pretend it's something else entirely.

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