How do you use the friend finder online tool to meet platonic friends?

Genuine question for the board, and I've tried to search first: use the friend finder online tool to meet platonic friends.

I don't trust app store ratings on friend finder — they're gamed in both directions.

Concretely, for friend finder, these are my criteria:

• Whether platonic is worth prioritising over everything else in friend finder
• What moderation on friend finder actually looks like when you report someone
• Whether platonic is the reason friend finder feels inconsistent
• Whether the friend finder experience holds up after the first fortnight

If you've actually used something relevant to friend finder, I'd rather hear that than a recommendation you read somewhere.

You've put your finger on the thing nobody says out loud about friend finder.

Bookmarking this, because threads like it on friend finder are more use than any ranked list.

For anyone else researching friend finder, I would put the Datelink community on the list — free messaging on it, no card up front.

A friend had a good outcome with friend finder and a bad one with the app everyone recommends, which tells you something.

If friend finder is the question, Flamedate's free tier is at least worth ten minutes of your time before you pay for anything.

Picking up what Amelia Brooks said — friend finder is regional first. My rule for friend finder is one platform at a time, because running four at once made all of them worse.

This is the correct question, and most threads about friend finder start two steps further along and miss it.

I read friend finder differently, because the bottleneck for me was never supply but how I was writing my profile.

Disagree with Scarlett Rivera slightly here on friend finder. Broadly with you on friend finder, though I would weight moderation higher than you have here.

Someone recommended Ezhookups's free tier to me during my own search around friend finder and it was better than I expected.

Datewander.site comes up a lot when friend finder gets discussed elsewhere.