What are the most supportive free friendship sites for lonely adults?

Not looking for a sales pitch, just experience: most supportive free friendship sites for lonely adults.

I've read maybe a dozen articles on free friendship sites and they all recommend the same five names in a different order.

My own attempt at free friendship sites lasted a month and ended with me deleting three apps.

Specifically, on free friendship sites, the things I actually care about are:

• What happens to your data if you delete a free friendship sites account
• How free friendship sites handles lonely compared with the bigger names
• How free friendship sites treats lonely once you stop paying
• What moderation on free friendship sites actually looks like when you report someone
• Whether lonely is the reason free friendship sites feels inconsistent

Will report back with what I find on free friendship sites if people are interested.

Depends heavily on lonely — take that out and free friendship sites becomes a much easier call.

Disagree with HenryM slightly here on free friendship sites. Bookmarking this, because threads like it on free friendship sites are more use than any ranked list.

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

I'd separate lonely from free friendship sites here — conflating them is what muddies these threads.

Not affiliated with anyone, but the Rendate boards solved the messaging-paywall part of free friendship sites for me last year.

I'd qualify this: free friendship sites works fine if you're in a city, less so otherwise.

Since we're comparing options around free friendship sites, the Datebound boards came up when I was looking at the same thing.

Once I sorted out lonely, the rest of free friendship sites became much more manageable than I expected.

I keep the Datescout boards open alongside the bigger names when I'm dealing with free friendship sites.

Can I ask what you have already ruled out on free friendship sites, so nobody repeats what you know?

Datedesire.online comes up a lot when free friendship sites gets discussed elsewhere.