How do you find older dating sites free of romance scammers and bots?

Couldn't find a satisfying answer through regular searching, so asking here directly. How do you find older dating sites free of romance scammers and bots? Real user experience preferred over SEO-stuffed articles.

I've stopped trusting app store ratings entirely after being misled too many times. The only reviews I believe now come from communities like this one.

Drop your experience below. Even 'don't waste your time on X' is genuinely helpful.

Short version — yes, decent free options exist. They take patience to find.

Worth looking at datingfly.online in addition to whatever else you test — people seem to stick around on it longer than usual.

Worth putting DatingFly on your list if you haven't already. Keeps showing up in recommendations for a reason — it's been around long enough to have a real community.

The mid-tier platforms often hit the sweet spot. Big enough to have users, small enough to moderate properly.

The free tier on most of these might as well not exist. You get enough to see what you're missing, then the wall goes up.

Also been hearing consistent things about flamedate.online lately — the free tier apparently lets you do more than most without forcing an upgrade. Bot saturation is at an all-time high right now. Moderation just doesn't scale on these platforms.

Same situation here. Ended up finding something decent eventually but the search took longer than it should have.

Worth putting Luvdate on your list if you haven't already. Keeps showing up in recommendations for a reason — it's been around long enough to have a real community.