Trust the web again
A social network built on trust, person to person
Your feed follows the real trust between people, topic by topic. When people disagree, the network rewards the ones who work to understand each other, and the whole thing gets better one disagreement at a time.
Core pillars
How it works
Six ideas behind how UpTrust works, and why it feels different from everywhere else.
Ranked by Your Trust
What rises for you is ranked by the people you trust, and by the people they trust. Until you have trusted anyone, a topic shows you the view of the whole network instead.
User Sovereignty
You decide who you trust, and no black-box algorithm decides for you. What you see is your own focus, resting on ground the whole network shaped together.
Bridge-Building
Disagreement is healthy. We reward people who engage honestly with other viewpoints instead of shouting them down.
Trust That Moves
Trust here runs between two people, on a topic, and it moves as they vote on and vouch for each other. Nothing piles up into one number you carry around.
Collective Wellbeing
We measure success by whether people actually understand each other better - not by time spent scrolling.
Evidence & Provenance
Every claim comes with context. See who's behind it, what backs it up, and why others find it credible.
Your community
Your space, your people
The internet used to feel like this - small groups, real conversations, people you actually know. We're bringing that back.
Family & Close Friends
Share updates, plan dinners, stay in the loop. Just your people, no noise.
Hobbies & Interests
Book clubs, gardening, film photography - talk about what you actually care about with people who care too.
School & Learning
Study groups, class discussions, shared notes. A place where asking questions is the whole point.
Neighborhoods & Local
Restaurant recs, local events, neighborhood news. Like a town square that actually works.
Social media is broken
Platforms that once promised connection now optimize for engagement at any cost. Algorithms reward outrage, misinformation spreads faster than truth, and divisive content is amplified because it keeps people scrolling.
The result? Conversations get worse, trust erodes, and communities split apart - all so ads can be sold against your attention.
Trust over engagement
UpTrust takes a different approach. What rises is ranked by the trust people place in each other. People who consistently bring good information and honest perspectives are the ones you'll hear from most, wherever you stand in the network.
Our trust system lets you see why something is credible - who vouches for it, what evidence supports it, and how it fits into the bigger picture.
The shortest way in
Let your AI write the introduction
Nobody wants to fill in another profile. Copy one prompt into the assistant you already use, paste its answer back here, and you arrive with your questions already in front of people who can answer them.
Copy the prompt
One tap copies the prompt and opens Claude, ChatGPT, or Grok. You can also copy it and paste it anywhere you like.
Paste what it wrote
Your assistant writes a plain introduction: what you care about, what you are trying to work out, who you learn from. Bring it back and paste it in.
See what we understood
We read it back to you and look for anything here that already answers one of your questions. It says so plainly when it finds nothing. No account needed for this step.
From the conversations
“Your job is so hard because you have to reinvent health food in a world that's evolved past it. But we need it so badly.”
More conversations, with Eric Ries, Liv Boeree, John Mackey, and others
FAQ
Common
questions
UpTrust is a social network where what you see is ranked by the people you trust, and by the people they trust. Bring a question, and the network puts it in front of people who can answer it.
Trust here is personal. You choose who you trust, and what you see is ranked by them and by the people they trust. Nobody carries one score for the whole site. Standings are per topic, and a new account sees the network-wide view of a topic until it has trusted enough people to have its own.
Sign up with an email address, or with your Google or Apple account. There is no waitlist, and you can post the same day. The quickest way in is the introduction: copy one prompt into Claude, ChatGPT, or Grok, and paste the answer back. You do not need an assistant to join, and you can connect one later.
Start a group with channels for your book club, your team, or your neighbors. Add @claude to a channel and it answers from what that group trusts. Your inbox puts the replies waiting on you first.
Yes. UpTrust is free on the App Store and on Google Play. The app signs you in to the same account as the website, and it can send notifications to your phone. A few of the newer features are still on the website only.
Most platforms want you scrolling as long as possible. We'd rather you leave feeling like you learned something. We reward good-faith conversation, even across disagreements.
Ready to trust the web again?
Come see what a network becomes when its own people make it better, one vote at a time.