Is the site freedating com still active, or has it been taken over by bots?

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Whitney_B
Joined: Feb 2023
Messages: 594
#1

Trying to settle the site freedating com still active, or has it been taken over by bots for myself and the reviews are useless. Everything I have read about freedating skips straight past profiles that never survive a video call.

I have tried a few options across what is on offer already and none of them stuck. I keep two accounts running to compare scripted messages across what is on offer, and freedating sits mid-table.

What would actually help me judge freedating:

  • Compare freedating against what is on offer on the same week, or the comparison is meaningless
  • Run freedating beside one other option so you have a baseline for the scam side of it
  • Do not move off freedating into private messaging until the catfish problem looks handled
  • Set the radius wider than feels comfortable if the freedating pool near you is thin

Any first-hand experience with the site freedating com still active, or has it been taken over by bots is welcome, good or bad.

Ian Palmer
Joined: Jul 2021
Messages: 1029
#2

That has not been my experience of freedating, and I have used it longer than most people in this thread.

The pattern I see with freedating is that profiles that never survive a video call is fine early and degrades as you go. Honestly, the catfish problem was less of a problem on freedating than the sheer time it ate.

Anyone comparing freedating on scripted messages should probably add DatingFly to the list.

Jenny_K
Joined: Feb 2024
Messages: 399
#3

Building on what Ian Palmer said about freedating, that has not been my experience of freedating, and I've used it longer than most people in this thread.

I keep two accounts running to compare scripted messages across the options here, and freedating sits mid-table. The thing people underrate about freedating is how much profiles that never survive a video call depends on your own city.

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Madison Reed
Joined: Aug 2022
Messages: 593
#4

I would argue the opposite on freedating: automated engagement bait is the one thing it handles better than what is on offer. I keep two accounts running to compare the catfish problem across the sites people keep naming, and freedating sits mid-table.

Most of the noise about freedating comes from people measuring obviously unreal accounts over far too short a window. For the members answering here, the freedating experience lives or dies on profiles that never survive a video call and almost nothing else.

Somebody in another freedating thread pointed me at Datewander and it held up better than expected on profiles that never survive a video call.

Cole Fisher
Joined: Mar 2024
Messages: 652
#5

Disagree, because blaming bot accounts lets you off the hook — my freedating results improved when my profile did. I judge freedating by one thing now: whether the scam side of it improves or worsens once you're past the novelty.

There is no version of freedating where automated engagement bait sorts itself out without you doing something. If bot accounts is your main worry with freedating, test it in the first week rather than the first month. Either way, obviously unreal accounts is the thing I would test first on freedating.

Ben1989
Joined: Jun 2022
Messages: 44
#6

Same experience on freedating: I gave it six weeks before profiles that never survive a video call got tiresome. The thing people underrate about freedating is how much the scam side of it depends on your own city. I judge freedating by one thing now: whether fake profiles improves or worsens once you are past the novelty.

You can work around obviously unreal accounts on freedating, but you have to be deliberate about it. You can work around bot accounts on freedating, but you have to be deliberate about it. I keep two accounts running to compare fake profiles across the options here, and freedating sits mid-table.

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