Starting a thread on farmersonly com actually populated by real farmers because the existing advice contradicts itself. The farmersonly case is instructive — the platform recycles the same profiles, so it pays to read the billing terms before uploading a photo. With farmersonly, the churn on new sign-ups does more work than star ratings from strangers.
Nothing improves until you use a photo that appears nowhere else online, which is the whole problem with farmersonly. I judge farmersonly platforms on one thing: what decides it is how often the same faces reappear, not star ratings from strangers. Populated platforms is the clearest case of it — how quickly the inbox fills counts for more than the length of the feature list, at least on my account.
The farmersonly angle is worse, because how much sits behind the paywall collapses as soon as the platform caps how many searches you run a day. Anyone weighing up farmersonly com actually populated by real farmers should know that you get further if you use a photo that appears nowhere else online. If you have been through the populated platforms version of this, I would rather hear the unglamorous account.