Dating app recommendations now self-erase within twenty-four hours

Evidence

Or consider Hinge’s “most compatible” feature: outputs of the platform’s recommendation algorithm that purports to match users that are more likely to be attracted to each other—but, importantly, these recommendations are inherently elusive, as they themselves disappear without a trace after twenty-four hours, exactly like an Instagram story or a fleet. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 475

Categorization

• QUESTION: This vanishing recommendation is a genuinely curious design choice — what does the ephemerality accomplish? FOMO, repeat engagement, or something that encodes a speculative, presentist ethos?
• ADDENDUM: Feeds directly into the reader’s thesis that speculation (volatility, ephemerality) has colonized dating — the match recommendation is a derivative position that decays to zero.