I’ll try and minimize personal info in this post so that it’s harder to dox me. I am a cishet white man without any romantic experience who is interested in trying online dating. I know that resources about doing this exist, but I don’t know how to find them without getting PUA or other harmful advice mixed in.
What do I need to know/do/have before I try this?
Which apps should I use?
Are there guides that give relatively simple information on how to avoid harmful situations with online and not online dating?
Thanks for the advice 
it actually took me about 3 months to even respond to my SO’s message, my inbox was just being inundated. and out of all those messages, maybe 30 people were actually communists and interesting to me, i went on plenty of dates with these people before i was even cognizant of my SO. whats wild is my SO is very, very attractive and he said he only had 3-4 messages at the time, mostly from like… christian conservative farm girls, and was very ecstatic when i replied to him finally and was hyper afraid of fucking it up