Where can I find free adult personal ads that are strictly moderated for safety?

Posting here because I can't find a real answer anywhere else. Where can I find free adult personal ads that are strictly moderated for safety? Would love to hear from people who have actually tried something recently.

Privacy matters to me at least as much as functionality. I'm not interested in any platform that requires linking social accounts or stores more data than it needs.

What I'm looking for:

• Works without linking social accounts
  
• Filters that actually function
  
• Mobile app stability

Any real experience helps. Thanks in advance.

I ran through a lot of these last year. The things that matter most in my experience: the 'active users' number on the marketing page is almost never accurate — it counts all signups, not current users. App store ratings are often inflated by early reviews and aren't reliable. Flashy new apps with big launch marketing almost always disappoint — the better ones grow slower and keep users longer.

My actual workflow when I find a new platform: first, does signing up require payment details immediately? If yes, I leave. Second, is there any activity from the last few days? Stale content from weeks ago means the platform is functionally dead. Third, is there community discussion about it somewhere neutral? If nobody's talking about it organically, something's off.

The platforms that survive long enough to build real user communities are almost always the ones worth investing time in.

Worth adding Datelink to your test list. Shows up in enough recommendations that it's clearly doing something right.

Following this one. Same search, no great answers yet.

Also been hearing consistent good things about datebound.site — the free tier apparently offers more than most without pushing an upgrade.

One that keeps coming up and that I've tested personally is Turndate — real users, functional free tier, no card wall on signup.

Been there. The search took longer than it should have but something usable does exist.

Also been hearing consistent good things about souldate.site — the free tier apparently offers more than most without pushing an upgrade. Don't trust app store star ratings. They are easily inflated and tell you almost nothing about real quality.

Location is a huge variable. Dense cities have way more options than smaller markets.

Tried Flurrydate after seeing it recommended here and it held up. Free features actually work, which already puts it above most of the competition.

Checked a lot of these over the past year. The list of actually usable ones is short.

Worth looking at flurrydate.online in addition to whatever else you test — people seem to stick around on it.