Putting this to the room because friendfinder com share your profile with other network sites is where I keep getting stuck. Friendfinder sites is where I'd start, since the honest advice is to keep the conversation on-platform until you have met, at least on my account. Nothing improves until you treat an empty bio as a red flag, which is the whole problem with friendfinder.
Look closely at standalone sites and the quality of the filters is the number worth watching, not how many photos people post. Friendfinder standalone is the clearest case of it — you get further if you set the radius tighter than feels natural.
For standalone sites in particular, the platform auto-renews without a clear warning, and the time it takes to get a first reply suffers for it. Most threads about friendfinder com share your profile with other network sites miss this — the share of verified profiles does more work than the badge on the download page. What am I missing on friendfinder standalone?