Getting Started on UpTrust
What you’ll find on this page.
Whether you’re new to UpTrust or seeking support on how to use new features, you should find the answers somewhere on this page.
You’ll find video tutorials here that cover basics like profile setup, site navigation, posting, and how to engage with content.
First, thank you for joining UpTrust! We’re still building, learning, and growing and your support means the world to us.
Your participation will help us verify our thesis that a better internet is possible with a better incentive structure. We believe UpTrust and the incentive structure it is pioneering could change humanity and seriously uplevel civilizational well-being. This exploration starts with people like you.
Log into your UpTrust account here ⟶
Account Set Up
Visit www.uptrusting.com
Click "Sign Up"- this will add your email to our waitlist.
You’ll receive an email when we’re ready for you to create an account.
Click the link in the email. Fill out your username and password. While we’re still in beta, all new users will be subscribed to our emails.
Upon login, add your profile photo and update your public bio. Watch the videos on how to do this here.
Key Features
Below is a review of some core fetures + known issues on the site.
Trust Scores
Trust Scores are a dynamic, personalized metric designed to reflect how likely you are to trust or find content credible on UpTrust. These scores are based on your trust network and the topics associated with the content.
Personalized & Weighted: The Trust Score you see for a post is calculated by the algorithm based on:
Your direct interactions with the creator (e.g., uptrusting their content).
The trust expressed by people you trust in your network, in relation to the creator.
Domain-Specific: Trust Scores are tied to specific topics or domains. For example, if a post is tagged with "science" and "biology," your Trust Score reflects your confidence in the creator's credibility within those areas.
Ever-Changing: As you interact with content, trust or distrust others, and build your network, Trust Scores evolve to reflect your shifting perspectives.
Visual Breakdown: Hover over a Trust Score to see a pie chart showing how various users influenced the score in your network. (Note: this is not aesthetically pleasing at the moment)
Global Score: Alongside your personalized Trust Score, you'll also see a global average score. This represents how all platform participants view the creator's credibility across the same domains.
By engaging with content—uptrusting, downtrusting in specific domains—you help the algorithm refine your network and provide more accurate scores.
UpTrust & DownTrust Arrows
The UpTrust and DownTrust arrows are central to how you engage with content on UpTrust. They allow you to express your trust or distrust in a post or comment and are key to shaping your trust network and refining the platform's algorithm. Use the UpTrust arrow to indicate that you find the content or the creator trustworthy within a specific domain. Use the DownTrust arrow when you find content or the creator less credible or untrustworthy within a domain.
Bots
While commenting on a post, you’re encouraged to check out the various helper bots available. These bots can help guide conversations, intensify perspectives, find unity amidst divergent perspectives, summarize what’s transpired in a branch of conversation, or even troll. Bot interactions are private unless you choose to promote the content publicly.
Bridging
Click “Bridge” on the lefthand menu. These comments and posts help synthesize or find a commonality between two people with opposing views. Bridges are unique to you and happen when you’ve uptrusted Person A’s content and downtrusted Person B’s content, but both A and B UpTrust a piece of content. That third piece of content is a bridge.
You’ll find bridges that are for your worldview (i.e. the scenario just described), bridges that you created for someone else, and also bridges helped by you (i.e. where you were Person A or B).
At the moment, bridges are somewhat rare, so don’t be surprised if it takes a while for any to appear.
Known Issues
Notifications: You’ll only see a notification if someone directly replies to your content, but not if someone replies to a reply on your content. We also don’t have email or text notifications, so you’ll only know if someone has replied by logging into your account.
Trust Scores in Profiles and Groups are miscalculated: The order of “top trusted” and the list of “trusted topics” are correct, but the trust score associated with them has not been calibrated correctly.
Trust Score Pie Chart: When you hover over the trust score, the pie chart that appears accurately displays what other people influence the trust score you’re seeing, but the visual itself is hard to interpret.
