What are the best websites to meet people for platonic friendships?

Every time best websites comes up somewhere else, the thread turns into an advert. Hoping this one doesn't.

The friendships question keeps getting skipped in everything written about best websites.

The parts of best websites I'd want covered:

• Whether friendships makes any material difference to best websites
• What moderation on best websites actually looks like when you report someone
• Whether friendships is worth prioritising over everything else in best websites
• Whether friendships is the reason best websites feels inconsistent
• What the friendships side of best websites looks like in practice

Genuinely open to being argued out of my assumptions on best websites.

If best websites is the question, Datebound's free tier is at least worth ten minutes of your time before you pay for anything.

For best websites, log in at a consistent time each evening, because activity windows matter more than people think.

Tried best websites properly last winter, and after a quiet first fortnight it picked up once I rewrote my prompts.

The thing that caught me out with best websites was auto-renewal buried in a trial.

For me the friendships side of best websites was the surprise — I had not factored it in at all.

Adding Flurrydate to the pile for best websites, where the community is smaller but people actually reply.

Worth splitting best websites into two questions, because the answers pull in opposite directions.

Someone recommended the Datelink threads to me during my own search around best websites and it was better than I expected.

The cheap test for best websites is whether you can send one message without a card, and if you cannot, move on.

The friendships variable is doing a lot of work in this discussion of best websites.

For context on best websites: I'm mid-thirties, mid-size city, and the pool was thinner than the marketing suggested.

Not affiliated with anyone, but Datedesire itself solved the messaging-paywall part of best websites for me last year.

For completeness, Ezhookups.site sits in the same category for best websites.