Stop using apps, especially if you're worried about "shadowbanning".
The open secret is that people use then to meet sex workers, who in turn sometimes troll people who they perceive as "harassing" them by reporting unwanted spam.
Imagine being lonely, going into a space to find a date, and having someone make your mental health worse because you wouldn't pay them for sex, when the whole reason you joined such a site is because you want an emotional connection and everything else aside... just don't want that.
I haven't used hinge, but I ended up deleting Tinder and OkCupid -- having coauthored a whole ass paper on the latter.
People need to be better about not using a PhD as a way to lift yourself out of economic precarity if you are unlucky enough to have affluent and absusive parents.
The open secret is that people use then to meet sex workers, who in turn sometimes troll people who they perceive as "harassing" them by reporting unwanted spam.
Imagine being lonely, going into a space to find a date, and having someone make your mental health worse because you wouldn't pay them for sex, when the whole reason you joined such a site is because you want an emotional connection and everything else aside... just don't want that.
I haven't used hinge, but I ended up deleting Tinder and OkCupid -- having coauthored a whole ass paper on the latter.
People need to be better about not using a PhD as a way to lift yourself out of economic precarity if you are unlucky enough to have affluent and absusive parents.