I feel like I should talk about my experience now. I've mentioned it a bit but a comprehensive post might be more informative.
First off, there are VERY few women near me. I live in America, not even in the middle of nowhere but I guess it's just not a part of the country where many female Duolicious users live. I know the male-to-female ratio is 16-1 but I'm seeing single digits within 150 miles of me (further than that is long distance imo and from my observations on my friends who have had LDRs I'd rather not bother), although my age minimum is 25 which does restrict it quite a bit, but I'm not going to budge on that, I'm just not interested in women born this century. This is a big case of YMMV though.
I sent intros to every woman who wasn't obviously insane or a catfish, and my sent-to-returned ratio is WAY higher than normie dating apps, which I credit to my intros being way better here. There are memes I can respond to, niche interests to talk about, etc. There was one woman who I thought I had a
really good intro for, she had a reference in one of her profile pics that was somewhat obscure (not so much if you're a Farmer though) and I thought I nailed it but she never replied to me and later just deleted her profile.
Side note, I didn't have any photos of myself there because I knew the site would get scraped or compromised (and I was right) so that might not have helped me get replies either.
The couple women who did get back to me I hit it off well with and we're still talking regularly to this day, but over the course of my conversations with them I just feel like I'd rather be friends with them. Which might be on me. Back to normie dating apps I guess, unless a ton of women suddenly join up.
This thread also helped give me more perspective on the woman's experience with dating apps in general (not just Duolicious). Men like to complain about how
they're the ones who have to initiate contact etc., and I've complained about this myself, but while men have to make the first move, women have dozens to hundreds of first moves to sort though which is easily just as much work, if not more. I'm sure this isn't just the case here but on every dating app, we know Duolicious isn't the only one where men outnumber women.
I wish all Kiwis the best of luck in their love quests, may you find the perfect autistic man or woman who you can shitpost alongside and be happy for decades to come.