I recall hearing about Alovoa a year ago and while it sounds nice with no ads or paid features, being open source, and private data being encrypted I have to imagine the userbase is incredibly small relative to other services. Google Play lists it at over a thousand downloads but it’s also available through F-Droid so that may not mean much. I have to imagine the userbase is mostly men which might prevent some users from joining or sticking around.
Either way (TL:DR) I’d be curious to see what your experiences are with open source dating apps or even apps designed around making friends.
I’ll admit it’s anecdotal, but it is absolutely my experience having worked in tech for 15 years.
Maybe “dominated” is an extreme word, but I would put money on “over-represented”.
Having worked in tech in California, I would say the opposite. Most of my coworkers were immigrants, and only happened to be white males if their origin country was in Europe (and only if their ancestors happened to be from there as well, my boss was Persian Swedish)
But I also worked with people from East Asia and South Asia as well, a lot of women and LGBT people.
It must be a regional thing, where other states are just a lot more white so you see more white people