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Welcome to UpTrust: building a better internet for civilizational well-being. UpTrust isn’t just another social platform. We’re a movement towards civilizational well-being, an evolutionary leap in collective intelligence, powered by you.

Our Vision

UpTrust is designed to help your conversations:

1. Elevate truth in a world of relativity
2. Foster love and compassion in dialogue
3. Increase our collective awareness
4. Align individual growth with societal progress

How UpTrust Works

How? Changing the incentive landscape. Your current social media choices almost exclusively offer an environment where enragement = engagement = money. This predictably produces polarization, addiction and isolation.

UpTrust is built on a different set of principles:

1. Trust-Based Influence: Your impact grows through the quality and insight of your contributions relative to a domain of trust, not just popularity. This can be seen relative to you as an individual user, or relative to any group you’re in. We also call this PageRank for People

2. Bridging Perspectives: We algorithmically reward content that thoughtfully synthesizes different viewpoints according to each individual user, encouraging creative solutions to complex issues. We call this bridging or synthesizing.

3. Collective Intelligence: Discover and engage with diverse groups and viewpoints, expanding your understanding of our interconnected world.

4. AI Facilitation: AI is in our nervous system, built in to categorize and provide context. Optional tools help you introspect, steelman arguments, learn, grow, and connect ideas across the platform, fostering more meaningful dialogue (including generative disagreement)

5. Organic Moderation: Content filtering isn’t top-down. It’s a distributed process where trusted members act as the immune system of our digital organism.

6. Aligned Incentives: Your natural desires for recognition, competition, and influence aren’t suppressed—they’re channeled towards outcomes that benefit the entire system. Your desire to win, to get status, to make money, are welcomed in a system that yokes these to collective wellbeing.

7. Everything is a bet: Whenever you bid for someone’s attention and it goes well, you’re rewarded with more access to their feed and network. But unlike trad social media, when it doesn’t go well, you lose access. This tightens the feedback loop and disincentivizes attention-grabbing.

Your Journey on UpTrust

1. Start Interacting: As soon as you start up- and down- trusting content, the algorithm will begin to adjust your trust scores, changing what’s prioritized for you. The people you start to trust will have greater influence on what you see in the domain you trust them for, and those you down-trust will have less influence. Down-trusts are also helpful for helping us find bridges.

2. Start Posting: Participate in discussions, share insights, and watch your influence grow based on the value you bring.

3. Try bots: Have fun. They’re pretty cool.

4. Bridge Divides: The full bridging features haven’t been released yet; nevertheless content that synthesizes divergent viewpoints and creates new understanding tends to be more trustworthy across polarized divides, and therefore wins in what was formerly the attention economy—now a trust economy.

5. Grow Collectively: As you develop, you’ll contribute to the overall improvement of dialogue and understanding on the platform.

Why UpTrust Matters

Humankind has built the infrastructure to be unimaginably connected, humane, and intelligent. Yet, we stand at a crossroads: civilizational well-being on one horizon, civilizational collapse on the other.

UpTrust offers a path towards the good future:

• A space where disagreements foster creativity and development, not division
• Dialogue that nourishes, connects, and helps us grow
• Increased awareness of our collective existence and potential
• An opportunity to align personal growth with societal progress

Thank you for helping make this vision real.

With you we make UpTrust more than a platform—we curate a culture dedicated to bettering ourselves and our world through more meaningful, nuanced, and compassionate interaction in a grounded way, that fully honors and includes selfish, ethnocentric, and worldcentric motivations as part of the collective well-being.