How do you safely talk to local singles free on the internet?

Someone in another thread mentioned local singles in passing and it's been bugging me since.

Every comparison of local singles I've seen skips the part I care about, which is what happens after you sign up.

Narrowing it down, here is what matters to me about local singles:

• What happens to your data if you delete a local singles account
• What the talk side of local singles looks like in practice
• Whether talk is worth prioritising over everything else in local singles
• How visible local singles keeps you when you are not paying for a boost

Particularly interested in the talk side of local singles if anyone has been there.

Same read from me. Everything I've learned about local singles points back to local density.

I keep Turndate open alongside the bigger names when I'm dealing with local singles.

I gave up on local singles twice before it worked, and the difference the third time was being far more specific in my bio.

If local singles is the question, the Datebie community is at least worth ten minutes of your time before you pay for anything.

Just flagging that some results you will find for local singles are review farms rather than reviews.

Someone recommended Datewander to me during my own search around local singles and it was better than I expected.

What's your actual goal here — is local singles about meeting someone soon, or about finding the right platform first?

I'd qualify this: local singles works fine if you're in a city, less so otherwise.