I keep going round in circles on most active femdom dating sites with a moderated community and I'd rather ask than guess. If femdom sites is your priority, the practical move is to log the times of day your messages get answered. The moderated sites angle is worse, because the platform auto-renews without a clear warning, and how fast moderation responds suffers for it.
For femdom sites in particular, the ratio of matches to conversations is the number worth watching, not the length of the feature list. The moderated sites case is instructive — you get further if you write the bio for one person rather than for everyone.
Same story on femdom: the deciding factor is how much sits behind the paywall, speaking only for my own city. I would frame most active femdom dating sites with a moderated community this way: the honest advice is to keep the first meet public and short, with the usual caveats. Happy to be told I am asking the wrong question about moderated sites.