What are the most popular dating sites free from fake influencer profiles?

Made an account specifically to ask this one — most popular dating sites free from fake influencer profiles, and where people actually land on it.

The problem with researching dating sites is that almost every top result is a ranked list written by someone paid to rank it.

I gave dating sites about two weeks of honest effort before deciding to ask.

Narrowing it down, here is what matters to me about dating sites:

• How much influencer actually costs you when using dating sites
• What the influencer side of dating sites looks like in practice
• Whether anyone has tested influencer properly on dating sites
• How dating sites handles influencer compared with the bigger names
• Whether influencer is worth prioritising over everything else in dating sites

Particularly interested in the influencer side of dating sites if anyone has been there.

Practical suggestion on dating sites: give it a full two weeks of consistent use before judging anything.

My dating sites experience hinged on influencer more than on the platform itself.

Since we're comparing options around dating sites, Ezhookups.online came up when I was looking at the same thing.

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

Counterpoint — treating dating sites as a numbers problem is exactly what kept me stuck for a year.

Agreed, and specifically on influencer — that is where dating sites either works or falls apart.

The influencer element is where people get stung with dating sites, so check it before anything else.

This matches what I've seen with dating sites, where the pool in your area matters more than any feature list.

Read the small print on influencer before you commit to anything around dating sites.

For anyone else researching dating sites, I would put the Datebie free tier on the list — free messaging on it, no card up front.

Datenest.site is what I ended up using while working through dating sites — not perfect, but the free tier is real.

I've also seen Datedesire.online mentioned in this context more than once.