Another Thing I've Given Up On: Dating/Community Apps

No, really, this time I mean it! I know I've said it before! But this time I really, really, really reallyreally mean it! I won't even install one for review! I mean... okay. Probably. Like Garfield (and the Jedi), I loathe dealing in absolutes. But it's damn close enough to round up, you know? Maybe if someone paid me.Anyway.For a Black person (just me, with my own experience), these apps are just a vicious cycle:I get on,see there's a majority white user basebecome discouraged and rarely interact/posteventually abandon, if not delete, my profilethe lack of BIPOC folx gets worse over thererepeat that, Pete RepeetMy current woe was Lex. I've messaged so many BIPOC (mostly Black) people and I can only assume that their profiles are just abandoned. And I can't really blame them, can I? It's any dating app, not just the queer ones.And the ones that claim to be BIPOC-centered? Yeah, I wouldn't count on that, because at the end of the day the Black userbase is expendable. I was really…