Grindr in hong kong
China’s biggest gay dating app wants to beat Grindr
//Facing censorship and competition at home, Blued has plans to build the world’s largest gay social platform.
But users and researchers contain questioned the app’s prospects under its new ownership, given Blued’s past failed attempts to expand into Western markets and the difficulties it will deal with in differentiating itself from competitors abroad. “It’s an uphill battle. The gay dating app market in the U.S. is quite saturated,” Lik Sam Chan, a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong who researches the politics of dating apps in China, told Unwind of World. “I don’t see Blued offering anything unique that other existing international gay apps execute not provide.”
&#;Blued users lashed out at Geng Le on social media after they found out about the paywall for disappearing photos. He later explained in an online announce that he had already left his job, and was not involved in the decision. Without Geng Le, China’s most prominent gay tech entrepreneur, Blued is losing touch with users in its dwelling market, said Chan, the dating app
Grindr no longer exists on China's app store. In the LGBTIQ+ community, data privacy is a growing concern
Popular LGBTIQ+ dating app Grindr has removed itself from Apple's app store in China as international companies grapple with the nation's strict regulatory framework.
Australian Strategic Policy Institute researcher Daria Impiombato said China's "hands-on" approach to content moderation and censorship applies to all apps that operate in the nation, and not just LGBTIQ+ content.
In December , Apple took down over 46, gaming apps as they failed to obtain a licence needed to run in China.
Apple also took down a Quran app late last year after requests by Chinese authorities.
"I think the regulatory framework is indeed the reason why they left, and it is a consequence of stricter measures imposed by the state through the latest Personal Information Protection Law," Ms Impiombato said.
"The new law has added increased burdens. Especially for those companies operating outside of China that are attempting to comply, it ma
Here’s what happened when I reactivated my Grindr profile after a two month break
What’s the psychology behind the Grindr reactivation cycle?
&#;Lik Sam Chan, a professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, wrote the book on this kind of thing.
Last year, he authored the analyze, The Politics of Dating Apps. One chapter, titled ‘Cycles of Uninstalling and Reinstalling’, looks specifically at the push-pull pattern inherent in apps like Grindr. Chan confirms this when we chat over the phone.
“Using gay dating apps such as Grindr… brings various kinds of emotions,” Chan says. “The key issue here is that users experience these opposing positive and negative emotions at the same hour, and that’s why they delete these apps only to reinstall them again.”
Chan’s research pointed to three specific emotions encountered by Grindr users: joy, ire and disgust. Joy, Chan found, is mostly observed as a result of users’ connectedness to their community, while anger and disgust are developed out of feeling harassed and deceived.
What emerges is a hotpot of incongruent feelings or, as