Spent most of last winter on verification practices, so here is what I actually saw.
If you are starting with verification practices, set your radius tight first and widen it only if it goes quiet.
Half the arguments about verification practices would end if people mentioned the time of year up front.
The thing to watch on verification practices is that anything asking for card details to 'verify your age' is a scam pattern.
The real differentiator across verification practices turned out to be whether the search filters did what they claimed.
With verification practices it came down to how the platform handled blocking and reporting, honestly.
That is where I have landed on for younger, at least for now.
Someone earlier recommended Rendate (rendate.site) and I ended up sticking with it longer than expected.