I guess if online dating is your only route then try to give the bio of folks more weight than their pictures.

It's difficult I understand, online dating is primarily based off on looks, but you have to be conscious about this and try to judge someone with more than just their looks.

Maybe try to give a chance to that 6/10 looking guy who has a genuinely nice profile description and questions. They're unlikely to have too many options and hence would love to commit to any nice person who swipes right on them.

The way dating apps work, they are only meant to serve top 5-10% of folks and starve the rest 90% so that they keep paying them over and over. It's a predatory system designed to make the app companies rich and to feed on the impulses of gullible people, so the sooner you get out, the better.

Most girls in my friend circle have met their long term relationships via their extended friend circles and only one person I know has met someone on Bumble and this was several years ago when bumble was relatively new and was only attracting long term type of folks.

Try to build a friend circle and try to socialize that way. You're likely to find the best quality people offline, not on these dating apps. I know so many good guys who just never found any success on dating apps and are happily committed once they met their partners offline.