Samoa sits in Oceania, and that tends to shape what comes up — food, sport, weather, the working week. Because nobody is filtered by border, though, the next skip might drop you into Kiribati or the Solomon Islands instead, with a completely different set of reference points.
English is an official language in Samoa alongside Samoan, so most chats need no negotiation at all. People often switch between the two mid-sentence, which is normal rather than a sign anyone is struggling.
UTC+13 is the offset to remember for Samoa. When it is 9pm there it is 6pm in Sydney and 12pm in Dubai, and that late-evening stretch is when random chat is at its least rushed.
There is no charge. Every chat mode works the same for visitors from Samoa as for anyone else in Oceania, and none of them sit behind a paywall.
Nothing beyond the 18+ confirmation. Video and audio travel straight between the two browsers over WebRTC — the same in Samoa as anywhere else in Oceania — so there is no profile to create and no chat history attached to you.
Samoan is what you hear locally, but English is official in Samoa and widely used, so you can start in English and let the conversation settle wherever it is comfortable.
Around 9pm in Samoa, which is UTC+13. From Sydney that means 6pm, and from Dubai, 12pm. Earlier in their day you will still get matches, just fewer from that part of Oceania.