Half the fun is the gap between what you expect and who actually shows up. Fiji anchors this page, but Oceania is a big place, and Micronesia and Vanuatu are part of the same pool of strangers waiting to connect.
Conversations from Fiji run in English from the first line. That makes it an easy place to start if you are new to random chat and would rather not negotiate a language barrier at the same time.
The overlap matters more than people assume. At UTC+12, 10pm in Fiji is 7pm in Tokyo and 3:30pm in Mumbai — aim for that window and you meet people winding down rather than rushing out.
It costs nothing, at any hour. 10pm in Fiji or the middle of the night, there is no paywall between you and the next stranger.
None at all. You do not even set a display name, and you can open the chat in English or English the moment the 18+ confirmation is ticked.
English throughout. Idioms and speed differ from one part of Oceania to the next, which tends to be the interesting part of the conversation rather than an obstacle.
Late evening tends to work best. Fiji sits at UTC+12, so 10pm there is 7pm on a Tokyo clock and 3:30pm on a Mumbai one — chats in that window usually run past the first question.