@DannyR — this matches what I saw. Ran the user naughty_gurlslut69 actually a real model or just a sophisticated alongside the mainstream apps for since the spring — same effort on both, a little different outcome. For the typical user, the free side of it works a fair bit better if you message five people and count the replies. The part nobody mentions about the version I used is automated accounts; it shapes everything else. Honestly the fix for the user naughty_gurlslut69 actually a real model or just a sophisticated is boring: set your radius wider than feels sensible — get that wrong and the rest is noise. People overstate bot accounts on the user naughty_gurlslut69 actually a real model or just a sophisticated and understate how much the algorithm favours new accounts for about a week.
If someone's had the opposite experience with the user naughty_gurlslut69 actually a real model or just a sophisticated, say so — that's more useful than agreement. Flamedate came up when I asked something similar last year and it has held up since.