Speculations on the distributed/Web3 future of online dating

1. Love in the age of decentralised
personal computing
@jasonksackey

2. Love in the age of decentralised
personal computing
@jasonksackey

3. About me
● Frontend developer
○ Agencies
○ Wooshii
● Occasional blogger

5. ● The present: centralised
● The future
○ decentralised?

9. Modern centralised dating services
● Interface: mobile app, website
● User database
● Matching algorithms
● Messaging

10. Userbases

11. ● Maximise users
● Network effect

12. ● Safety, security
● Quality control
● General vs niche

16. Why decentralise?
● More choice
● More end-user control
● Secure (?)

19. Encrypted messaging?
Nobody cares.

20. Dating on a blockchain?

21. … with AI?

25. ● Daters and ‘matchmakers’ are
peers on a network
● Separation of service and UI

26. User experience
● Unified interface for multiple
services
● Search everywhere
● One inbox

27. “We Experiment On Human
Beings! – The OkCupid Blog”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OkCupid#201
4_experimenting_on_users

28. Why decentralise? (2)
● Identity verification services
● Reputation

30. “Ashley Madison [...] used ‘bots’
to give users the impression that
the site had more female users”
http://fortune.com/2016/07/10/ashley-madison-chatbots/

32. Holochain
● Like blockchain, but sharded
● validating monotonic DHT
● JavaScript (or Lisp)
● Web UI

33. https://github.com/Holochain/holochain-proto/wiki

34. https://github.com/Holochain/holochain-proto/wiki

35. https://github.com/Holochain/holochain-proto/wiki

36. ● Network of personal servers
● OS: Arvo
● Languages: Nock, Hoon
● Web UI
Urbit

39. Urbit
● Identity
● ~mighex-forfem
● Messaging
● Unix minus legacy

40. General purpose social network
● Standardised identity and chat
● Decoupled user interfaces
● No lock-in

41. ● Lower costs
● More choice
● Meta-matchmakers?
Decentralised ‘matchmaker’ services

42. ● Professional networking
● Hobbies
● Politics
● Religion
Beyond dating

43. ● Semi-decentralisation
● Data portability
● Separation of concerns
● Blockchain?
Keys to decentralised social computing

44. @jasonksackey