Are casual dating apps actually full of real people or just bots?

Not looking for a sales pitch, just experience: are casual dating apps actually full of real people or just bots.

There's a real gap between how casual dating apps is marketed and how it behaves once you're actually using it.

The parts of casual dating apps I'd want covered:

• What happens to your data if you delete a casual dating apps account
• Whether bots is the reason casual dating apps feels inconsistent
• Whether casual dating apps has real users outside the big metros

Happy to be told I'm asking the wrong thing about casual dating apps.

If casual dating apps is the question, the Flamedate boards is at least worth ten minutes of your time before you pay for anything.

Anything promising instant matches around casual dating apps is worth treating with suspicion.

Not affiliated with anyone, but the Datewander threads solved the messaging-paywall part of casual dating apps for me last year.

Jackson Young, that's roughly where I landed on casual dating apps too. The bots part of this is being overstated, because casual dating apps was fine for me without it.

My own run at casual dating apps: three months, two platforms, and one relationship that lasted about a year — small sample, but real.

Since we're comparing options around casual dating apps, the Turndate community came up when I was looking at the same thing.