It’s an app where women upload photos of men they’re dating to get “the tea” on them (red flags, catfishing, etc.). I always wondered if something like this existed. Sucks that it has to, sucks even more if their users are being targeted like this.
What about people who don’t use this app, do they not deserve to be protected, do they deserve to suffer because they didn’t use this app?
Let’s be real, this app is about gossip, it’s not about protecting women and keeping them safe, it’s literally in the name it’s about “spilling the tea” aka gossip.
I hear that, I just don’t think this is the way to go about it. Digital reputation system that lives on some corporate dataset is just ripe for terrible problems. It’s terrible for everyone’s privacy when we normalize this shit.
I mean. A social database I feel is toxic in of itself. It’s makes forgiveness harder, it makes changing yourself harder. What’s the point in changing if people are gonna look you up in a database like this and perhaps forevermore treat you as if you are like that in the present day, forever. It assumes that humans are unchanging, that once a shitty person always a shitty person.
The reason that up until now an app like that hasn’t existed is because it is an absolutely awful idea if you spend more than 10 seconds thinking about it.
It’s ripe for abuse in fact I would be surprised if even half of the reports are legitimate. Isn’t absolutely god awful system and whoever thought this up is an absolute prat, who seriously needs to get outside and actually experience real life and real people.
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Found this article after a quick web search: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2025/07/24/what-is-tea-the-viral-women-only-app-with-1-million-downloads/
It’s an app where women upload photos of men they’re dating to get “the tea” on them (red flags, catfishing, etc.). I always wondered if something like this existed. Sucks that it has to, sucks even more if their users are being targeted like this.
Talk about adding to the toxic nature of the world. Anyone thinking we should have a digital record of social reputation isn’t thinking it through.
It’s a reaction to the toxic nature of the world, what it adds is a drop in the bucket in exchange for avoiding abusers
Strong disagree. Just creating another bully culture.
What’s the alternative to warning strangers about predators?
Contacting police?
As usual on Lemmy, the answer is just for women to shut up and listen to what the men want
What about people who don’t use this app, do they not deserve to be protected, do they deserve to suffer because they didn’t use this app?
Let’s be real, this app is about gossip, it’s not about protecting women and keeping them safe, it’s literally in the name it’s about “spilling the tea” aka gossip.
I hear that, I just don’t think this is the way to go about it. Digital reputation system that lives on some corporate dataset is just ripe for terrible problems. It’s terrible for everyone’s privacy when we normalize this shit.
But are they abusers? You sure they ain’t just getting revenge on an ex, making them undateable. How do you even validate this information?
It’s gossip and toxic. Have you not seen what these places are on Facebook?
I mean. A social database I feel is toxic in of itself. It’s makes forgiveness harder, it makes changing yourself harder. What’s the point in changing if people are gonna look you up in a database like this and perhaps forevermore treat you as if you are like that in the present day, forever. It assumes that humans are unchanging, that once a shitty person always a shitty person.
The reason that up until now an app like that hasn’t existed is because it is an absolutely awful idea if you spend more than 10 seconds thinking about it.
It’s ripe for abuse in fact I would be surprised if even half of the reports are legitimate. Isn’t absolutely god awful system and whoever thought this up is an absolute prat, who seriously needs to get outside and actually experience real life and real people.
It doesn’t have to.