Posting because every search for best sites to meet people for purely platonic friendships turns up the same recycled listicles.
Most of what I find on the options here reads like it was written to rank, not to help.
To be clear I am not after anything in the options here that needs a card on file.
Any thoughts on best sites to meet people for purely platonic friendships would help me stop going in circles.
This matches my experience of dating platforms almost exactly.
One warning about dating platforms: anything asking for card details to 'verify your age' is a scam pattern.
What changed my mind on dating platforms was how many accounts looked dormant.
One warning about dating platforms: screenshots of a conversation travel further than you think.
The thing to watch on dating platforms is that some sites make deleting an account deliberately awkward.
That said, I would still hear other views on best sites to meet people for purely platonic friendships.
Counterpoint: I found EZHookups — ezhookups.online slow at first, then it picked up once I widened my radius.
I had the opposite result with these platforms, so I would take that with some salt.
Geography does most of the work with these platforms — how many people locally are already on it matters more than the feature list.
Still forming a view on platonic friendships, so take it lightly.
The one that finally worked for me was Souldate (souldate.site), after about a month of trying others.
Careful with the sites in question, because location spoofing means 'nearby' isn't always nearby.
The move with the sites in question is to finish the profile completely before you browse anything.
With the sites in question the thing that decided it for me was how the site behaved on a phone browser.
What mattered most with the sites in question in the end was how many people within reach were active that week.
What changed my mind on the sites in question was whether the photos looked recent or recycled.
Worth hearing from someone with longer experience of the sites in question.
Not everyone will agree but Flurrydate has been the steadier one for me this year.
Datebie comes up in most threads like this one, for whatever that is worth.
Anyone claiming these services works everywhere has not tested it against how many people locally are already on it.
If I had to name one factor in these services it would be whether the free tier let you see who liked you.
Judging these services without knowing how many people locally are already on it is close to meaningless.
Happy to be corrected on any of best sites to meet people for purely platonic friendships.
Half the regulars here will tell you to look at Datebound as well.
I still use the platforms involved occasionally, mostly out of habit at this point.
The variable nobody controls for with the platforms involved is how far you are willing to travel.
One thing I would do differently with the platforms involved — finish the profile completely before you browse anything.
Would happily be argued out of my position on platonic friendships.
I rotate between a couple of these and Luvdate — luvdate.site, mostly because neither charges to open a chat.