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After a slow start the regional platforms have leaned much heavier on paid boosts, and nobody warns you about it. Worth saying that the decision to test two platforms at once did hardly at all more for me than switching platform, and nobody warns you about it. Granted the niche ones look similar, the discovery feed differs somewhat, and nobody warns you about it. The detail people skip is that the bigger platforms have leaned much heavier on paid boosts after a slow start. If you have limited time in the evenings, read the last few pages of a thread before asking — it stops you blaming the app for the profile.

The reporting system changed meaningfully these past few weeks, which explains a lot of the complaints here. Keep your expectations low for the first fortnight, because most complaints trace back to that one thing, and it makes a real difference. My advice would be to write a profile that gives someone something to reply to and then give it a full week before judging, which is worth knowing before you sign up. The age check and the profile prompt pull in opposite directions, and nobody warns you about it. The moderation queue changed noticeably in the last stretch of trying, so results vary more than you'd think.

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Though people disagree here, the step that matters most is to move to a proper conversation quickly: otherwise you end up judging it on a bad day. Across a couple of different accounts the ones with a paywall have made the free version harder to use, and nobody warns you about it. When you have tried three apps already, the chat-first sites tend to feel somewhat worse than they are, though it depends heavily on where you live. Though people disagree here, the step that matters most is to report the obvious fakes rather than ignoring them: that is the part that actually moves the needle.

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