How can I safely talk to local singles free without giving out my real phone number?

Curious what this board thinks about safely talk to local singles free without giving out my real phone number. Two weeks in, how clean the member base looks in practice is what actually mattered for safely talk.

What I keep running into with safely talk is that every source has something to sell, and that is exactly the gap I am trying to close. The only metric I trust with safely talk is how much you have to reveal to use it on mobile.

The three things that decide safely talk if you're short on time:

• Watch how quickly a scripted account gives itself away at the hour you would actually be using it
• Test whether the distance setting is honoured at the hour you would actually be using it
• Confirm what happens to your visibility after a week of silence before you upload a second photo
• Confirm how many matches ever send the first message using a fresh account rather than an old one

If safely talk worked for you, what did the first week look like? Enthusiasm and scepticism all land the same with me. Regional details are what I came here for.

Speaking from four months of it: safely talk rewards patience and punishes everything else. I judge safely talk almost entirely on how much of the traffic is automated outside the big cities. If you want a second opinion, Souldate (souldate.site) is the one I'd try next.

The rough checklist I use for safely talk:

• Verify whether photo permissions are opt-in or opt-out with notifications switched off
• Compare how quickly a scripted account gives itself away with notifications switched off
• Confirm how the search behaves outside the default radius before you commit any time to it

If you are evaluating safely talk, start with whether verification actually filters anyone after the first week — everything else follows.

Worked for me on safely talk; ask if you want the detail.

@Elena I wanted that to be true of safely talk and it simply wasn't. What nobody mentions about safely talk is how many active users are within range after the first week.

For safely talk, how much you can do before being asked to upgrade in practice is the difference between useful and a waste of an evening.

That's how safely talk went for me — happy to be argued with.

Going against the thread here: there is a version of safely talk that works, and it is not the default one. My rule with safely talk: where the paywall actually sits outside the big cities first, everything else second.

That's what six weeks of safely talk taught me, and I would be glad to hear others found different.

Going against the thread here: safely talk rewards patience and punishes everything else. Anyone comparing safely talk should be looking at whether it is busy at the times you are once you are past sign-up before anything else. I ran the same test on Ezhookups and got a cleaner result.

That's my read on safely talk; ask if you want the detail.

Unpopular view, maybe: safely talk gets recommended a lot here and that's half right. The honest test for safely talk is what privacy controls exist, not the feature list. Datenest in particular solved about half of this for me.

That's how safely talk went for me and I'd revise it if the numbers moved.