privacy

Clear Names. I wonder whether a social media platform based on trust should encourage clear names for its users. 

I wouldn't want them enforced (there are legitimate reasons for pseudonyms, like living in a country with questionable free speech practices), but should we assign trust points to those who use their real names?

Clear Names. I wonder whether a social media platform based on trust should encourage clear names for its users. 

I wouldn't want them enforced (there are legitimate reasons for pseudonyms, like living in a country with questionable free speech practices), but should we assign trust points to those who use their real names?

I'm wondering how many of you have backed away from "fame." 

It comes in all sizes. 

The joke about people in radio broadcasting is that it is "the lowest wrung of the entertainment ladder."  Even if true, it is still brutal. I had to be better than 300 other applicants for one prestige job I had.  Imagine the pressure these days to be an "influencer."

I'd like to know authors' views on what you consider "getting there."

Metamodern Love . I am at the airport passing into the US to hold the Fall Metamodern Spirituality Lab (on Love) at Sky Meadow in Vermont. My hunch is that a lot of what a platform like this one should do is exchange what we're doing, where we are, who we're with, etc. and not just our ideas and responses to things. So here's a nod in that direction. 

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?

Are questions more / less / equally as valuable as statements?

What makes questions trustworthy or untrustworthy?

What does it mean to uptrust or downtrust a post that’s mostly an inquiry?

How could questions and inquiry become a sincere avenue for bridging silos?