Spent most of last winter on text-first platforms, so here is what I actually saw.
Before you commit to text-first platforms, be specific about what you want in the bio.
What I wish someone had told me about text-first platforms: keep the first message to two lines with a question in it.
Worth flagging with text-first platforms — requests for money at any stage are a hard stop.
Whether text-first platforms works comes down to whether the nearest city is twenty minutes or two hours away more than anything the marketing mentions.
Before you commit to text-first platforms, keep chatting on-platform until you're comfortable.
Worth doing early on text-first platforms: turn off notifications so it does not take over your evening.
Happy to be corrected on any of work networks.
Someone in another thread pointed me at Flamedate and it is worth a look if you are outside a big metro.