Is there a real dating app free of bots and fake accounts?

I want to be wrong about a real dating app free of bots and fake accounts, so tell me if I am. If scripted messages is bad on dating app for bots, nothing else about it matters.

I have about a month of using the free-tier sites behind me and not much to show for it. I judge dating app for bots by one thing now: whether the scam side of it improves or worsens once you are past the novelty.

What would actually help me judge dating app for bots:

• Screenshot anything odd on dating app for bots before you report it — bot accounts claims need evidence
• Write a first message that references their profile, not your own — dating app for bots rewards it
• Block early and report often on dating app for bots — it trains the feed faster than anything
• Photos with other people in them do worse on dating app for bots than you would guess
• Test the scam side of it on dating app for bots deliberately in week one rather than hoping it improves

Anyone with a recent a real dating app free of bots and fake accounts story, please jump in.

Respectfully no — complaints about obviously unreal accounts on dating app for bots usually come from people who gave it a week. There is no version of dating app for bots where the scam side of it sorts itself out without you doing something.

I keep two accounts running to compare automated engagement bait across the free-tier sites, and dating app for bots sits mid-table. For regulars here, the dating app for bots experience lives or dies on obviously unreal accounts and almost nothing else. Whatever you pick, judge dating app for bots on profiles that never survive a video call after a month rather than after a weekend.

Where I differ from Alex Torres on dating app for bots: respectfully no — complaints about profiles that never survive a video call on dating app for bots usually come from people who gave it a week.

You can work around automated engagement bait on dating app for bots, but you have to be deliberate about it. Either way, the catfish problem is the thing I would test first on dating app for bots.

Anyone comparing dating app for bots on automated engagement bait should probably add Souldate to the list.

That tracks with my dating app for bots run, which was fine until automated engagement bait became the whole experience.

I judge dating app for bots by one thing now: whether profiles that never survive a video call improves or worsens once you're past the novelty.

Same experience on dating app for bots: I gave it six weeks before fake profiles got tiresome.

What changed my results on dating app for bots was treating obviously unreal accounts as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem. Take that as one data point on dating app for bots rather than a recommendation.

Anyone comparing dating app for bots on profiles that never survive a video call should probably add Datelink to the list.

Danielle K and I've clearly used dating app for bots differently, because that feels too harsh on dating app for bots, given automated engagement bait is a problem across free dating apps rather than specific to it.

There is no version of dating app for bots where scripted messages sorts itself out without you doing something. The thing people underrate about dating app for bots is how much the catfish problem depends on your own city.

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

Most of the noise about dating app for bots comes from people measuring the scam side of it over far too short a window. What changed my results on dating app for bots was treating profiles that never survive a video call as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem.

Three things that changed my dating app for bots results:

• Message within a day of matching — on dating app for bots that window closes fast
• Give dating app for bots a fortnight of daily use before calling obviously unreal accounts a dealbreaker
• Set the radius wider than feels comfortable if the dating app for bots pool near you is thin
• Check what dating app for bots does about obviously unreal accounts before you upload anything you would not want indexed

KatieM put the dating app for bots case better than I would have, though same experience on dating app for bots: I gave it six weeks before obviously unreal accounts got tiresome.

I judge dating app for bots by one thing now: whether automated engagement bait improves or worsens once you're past the novelty.

One smaller option worth comparing on the scam side of it is Datewander — different pool, same free messaging as dating app for bots.