{"id":838,"date":"2026-05-25T11:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T11:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=838"},"modified":"2026-05-25T11:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T11:41:07","slug":"these-privacy-conscious-gay-dating-apps-want-to-dethrone-grindr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=838","title":{"rendered":"These Privacy-Conscious Gay Dating Apps Want to Dethrone Grindr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"lead-in-text-callout\">You could argue,<\/span> and people have, that the top gay <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/tag\/dating-apps\/\" class=\"text link\">dating apps<\/a> are now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.them.us\/grindr-user-experience-dating-app-ads-worse-rot-economy\" class=\"text link\">optimized<\/a> for <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/AskGaybrosOver30\/comments\/1oukex9\/grindr_is_dead_scammers_and_ads_killed_it_what_do\/?solution=f29096013fbb9c86f29096013fbb9c86&amp;js_challenge=1&amp;token=bbbe4bf1c9a2b5160829c4be34da5861a0a032fa12ee3e8784e232a052d18823&amp;jsc_orig_r=\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/AskGaybrosOver30\/comments\/1oukex9\/grindr_is_dead_scammers_and_ads_killed_it_what_do\/?solution=f29096013fbb9c86f29096013fbb9c86&amp;js_challenge=1&amp;token=bbbe4bf1c9a2b5160829c4be34da5861a0a032fa12ee3e8784e232a052d18823&amp;jsc_orig_r=&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/AskGaybrosOver30\/comments\/1oukex9\/grindr_is_dead_scammers_and_ads_killed_it_what_do\/?solution=f29096013fbb9c86f29096013fbb9c86&amp;js_challenge=1&amp;token=bbbe4bf1c9a2b5160829c4be34da5861a0a032fa12ee3e8784e232a052d18823&amp;jsc_orig_r=\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">monetization<\/a> and juicing engagement loops. Increasingly overrun with bots, they are at times even devoid of actual connection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/grindr-ai-first-era-everything-app-for-the-gay-guy\/\" class=\"text link\">Grindr<\/a>, with its 15 million monthly active users, is <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/culture\/479175\/is-grindr-dead\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.vox.com\/culture\/479175\/is-grindr-dead&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/culture\/479175\/is-grindr-dead\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">drowning in ads<\/a> while pushing expensive upsells on users. (In February, as part of its \u201cgAI\u201d overhaul, the company <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.grindr.com\/blog\/testing-edge-our-first-full-powered-gai-tm-subscription\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.grindr.com\/blog\/testing-edge-our-first-full-powered-gai-tm-subscription&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.grindr.com\/blog\/testing-edge-our-first-full-powered-gai-tm-subscription\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> a new premium monthly subscription tier for $500.) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/the-rebirth-of-queer-cruising-apps-sniffies-bkdr-motto\/\" class=\"text link\">Sniffies was beloved<\/a> by cruisers until the seismic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/sniffies-users-worry-about-straightification-gay-cruising-app\/\" class=\"text link\">reaction<\/a> in April to Match Group\u2019s $100 million investment sparked concerns that another queer space could get absorbed into a larger dating conglomerate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">As public backlash against popular queer apps continues to mount, a batch of tech entrepreneurs are scrambling to meet the demand by doubling down on privacy-conscious, community-driven alternatives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Calum Bowden, who posts under the internet persona @donjackoghue, launched <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/meetmarket.io\/setup\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/meetmarket.io\/setup&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/meetmarket.io\/setup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MeetMarket<\/a> in March. Currently only available as a web app, MeetMarket includes all the core features of your typical hookup app\u2014a customizable profile, a grid of nearby users\u2014with one major difference. It was built on a decentralized identity system, meaning MeetMarket doesn\u2019t store users\u2019 emails, passwords, or personal information. Users store everything on their device, giving them full control and ownership over their data and how it\u2019s shared. Messages on the platform are end-to-end encrypted, and Bowden says it will always be ad-free, even for nonpaying members. (A monthly membership costs \u20ac12, or $13.99.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cDecentralization and data privacy make a lot of sense for queer people in general, and especially in hostile legal environments or in the US right now, where you don\u2019t really know what digital platforms actually have your best interest in mind,\u201d says the 34-year-old PhD student in Berlin who studies the sociology of technology and organization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Within the first 48 hours of MeetMarket\u2019s launch on March 24, over 12,000 people had signed up, and some 60,000 people have used it since. The app averages 5,000 weekly visitors, according to Bowden, though there is not a lot of concurrent activity in the same cities. \u201cIt\u2019s become more social than necessarily driving an immediate hookup.\u201d But casual encounters do still happen, he says. \u201cThe Midwest bottom jockeys are eating meet market up,\u201d one <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/x.com\/gayboy16hmu\/status\/2049020320690983404?s=20\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/x.com\/gayboy16hmu\/status\/2049020320690983404?s=20&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/gayboy16hmu\/status\/2049020320690983404?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">user noted<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Bowden didn\u2019t anticipate public sentiment would sour on Sniffies just a few weeks after his launch. Still, the timing of it couldn\u2019t have been more serendipitous. \u201cWhen Sniffies announced their investment from Match Group, I was like, how are they fueling my fire?\u201d he asks. \u201cThis is exactly the model that venture capital leads to. This is exactly why these economic models for technology are so bad, because they basically force the gentrification of a digital platform.\u201d Sniffies did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">A self-described \u201cutopian conspirator,\u201d Bowden is the cofounder of <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/trust.support\/\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/trust.support\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/trust.support\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trust<\/a>, a nonprofit that operates as a kind of incubator to prototype ideas \u201cas a critique of technology and the status quo,\u201d he says. With MeetMarket, he wanted to create an app that gave users more agency over their experience without cheapening it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">It can sometimes seem like Big Dating wants people to believe that it is the only answer to cure their romantic woes\u2014Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/x.com\/axios\/status\/2054228606730047548?s=46&amp;t=de7CyuKBukvYEaRyJEx5eg\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/x.com\/axios\/status\/2054228606730047548?s=46&amp;t=de7CyuKBukvYEaRyJEx5eg&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/axios\/status\/2054228606730047548?s=46&amp;t=de7CyuKBukvYEaRyJEx5eg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recently told Axios<\/a> that there isn\u2019t much longevity in niche apps\u2014but the opposite is proving just as true, as people seek out more specificity and intention in their online dating experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cGay men have tribes, subcultures, aesthetics, and different ways they want to be seen,\u201d says Justin Finnegan, a 35-year-old software engineer in Toronto who last year created <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.chunkr.app\/\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.chunkr.app\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chunkr.app\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chunkr<\/a>, a gay hookup app that has resonated with bears, chubs, cubs, and their admirers despite originally being for all gay men.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/these-privacy-conscious-gay-dating-apps-want-to-dethrone-grindr\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You could argue, and people have, that the top gay dating apps are now optimized for monetization and juicing engagement loops. Increasingly overrun with bots, they are at times even devoid of actual connection. Grindr, with its 15 million monthly active users, is drowning in ads while pushing expensive upsells on users. 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