Normie dating apps are horrific for being absolutely loaded with the worst dark patterns combined with the worst userbases. The only one I have used which wasn't terrible is Barq which is like tinder+grindr for furries. No paid subscriptions, no cypto chud scammers, no only fans thots, no fake profiles, pretty much everyone is friendly and will chat.
It's a lot of things crammed in to one app. But they have features for filtering people by age, gender, sexuality, relationship status, and kinks.
It would be normal usage to use it to find new local friends, finding dates, or just finding people to have sex with. Normally people spell out what they are looking for on their profile.
Barq is pretty good, have seen a few bots on there but the thing is us furries as a target we're not really any sort of payoff - furries are mostly hip to any sort of scammy behaviour etc anyway and it's also really hard to make a bot that can masquerade as a furry vs "wot up bb click 2 see my boob pic" with a chick profile pic.
But yeah it is kind of an eclectic mix of socials/dating/hookups. Not perfect, but so much better than howlr was.
