all these dating apps are scams and I cant spend anymore money
Indeed.
I have been on this site to know you long enough to know that I believe you are a Millennial if I am not correct.?
I am a Gen X'er.
Most of us that are X'ers and older, we met folks we had relationships with, primarily the old fashioned way, with a little liquid courage and chutzpah.
I told my kid, that about 75% of human attraction is non-verbal and olfactory. This is why a lot of dating apps. fail. There are things you can't convey through cyber-space, and folks get their hopes up a bit too much.
So it is a nice way to find potential people, to introduce you to folks that might be good matches, but? If you don't know what you are doing when you do meet, the keys to a good match?
. . . you are bound to fail.
I do feel for younger folks these days. I had read recently that women and girls these days, most of them, won't even consider a guy that approaches them out of no where. Holy shit, that must be rough.
I did that dozens of times when I was in my twenties. Those meetings generally led to far more successful dating, than the shit I met on-line in my thirties.