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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
“When does an online community feel like home, and when does it start pulling people somewhere darker?”
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Everything is a mirror of everything. We’re all censoring most of our awareness. Uptrust is a currently curated community where we can actually practice thinking. The more I post the more direct I’m being with everyone in my life.... I could really use some guidance on exactly how Uptrust works. From what I can tell...........well, I'm clueless. At first I was thinking that uptrusting something made it more popular, and so it functions like a "like" works, while downtrusting something does the opposite,... I am considering that the "uptrust" is similar to reddit. "uptrust" means yeah i want more of this!” and "downtrust" means "nope, less of that." i thought i wanted a like a button initially, but i notice that I don’t have that same desire when I’m on reddit.... - stephen...
How does UpTrust handle inquiry?
With only a few exceptions, it seems to me that the posting/commenting here tends toward making and responding to statements. Is there an implicit/explicit cultural value around making (controversial) statements on UpTrust?... also, the hiddenness isn’t necessarily supposed to be a feature—the longterm hope is that we have a variety of "trust scores" people can see, as well as being able to see reactions that dont necessarily affect trust (the same way everyon’s face emotionally reacts in person to... Hello and welcome! No instruction page yet… so much yet to be built; we expect to have a little walkthrough coming in a few months (around Feb of 2025).... What kind of content do you like engaging with?
I’m exploring and uptrusting and experimenting here. Seems like some of us are into posting musings or frames we Believe In or are currently exploring. Some are treating the space like a Xanga or LiveJournal (which i love tbh). I’ve posted a practical question....