Trust scores. Brand new, but the onboarding info suggests Trust Scores reflect how much a post's source "reflects my worldviews"?  I'm not really looking for an echo chamber platform and had assumed these scores would focus more on good faith, or even veracity, as opposed to viewpoint alignment.  I could totally see upvoting something/one I completely disagree with as long as I see them as using logic and rationality to support their good faith views.  Am I misinterpreting?

Something like an introduction. This platform seems like an awesome idea, but I still mostly don't understand how it works which has kept me from landing here very often.

This post is something of an experiment for that reason. I wonder if someone will see it and respond. I wonder if that happens, whether I will know unless I specifically come back from time to time to check. 

Then again, I do often put a lot of effort to write meaningful things on platforms like Facebook and find myself disappointed in the response. I'd love to discover an online space that felt generative rather than just practicing resiliently swimming upstream.

By way of introduction, I do many things, but they all boil down to various questions of relationship - all the relationships that can be imagined between self, other and world. When my attunement feels the way I like it to do, everything is like music to me, so I call that 'musicality of being.' 

Above all these days, I'm focused on the art of listening - in all the ways that one might imagine what "listening" means (I'm trying to further diversify my own definitions.

I recently wrote some "Notes on Listening": 

https://open.substack.com/pub/sethdellinger/p/notes-on-listening?r=p5zo5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

If you took the time to read this . . . thanks!

The VP Debate. Hey y’all,

What we’re up to tonight

Tonight we’re going to have fun, test how UpTrust works with 20-30 people simultaneously using it, and perhaps gain some insight and make some connections.

How to engage

You’re welcome to use the platform however you’d like, and in no way are you restricted to debate topics. We’re using the debate as a launch pad and a orientation of shared experience that we can keep coming back to. Feel free to innovate or do normal stuff, we’re excited to see what we all come up with. Here are some ideas:

• Write longform content
• Do really short stuff
• Speak meta about the process, government, ideology;
• Speak about specific policies, ideas, solutions, possibilities;
• Speak micro / personal / interpersonal about your feelings, your interactions in the moment here, your life
• Inquire into things, asking questions, pondering, inviting reflection and group intelligence
• Be thoughtful
• Be disagreeable
• be silly
• Speak from your heart
• Do whatever feels real, knowing that there’s impact
• Share links or images using Markdown (the formatting guide will show you how)

Disagreement is welcome, and converse like you do in-person

So far in our tests, finding disagreement has been more challenging than the usual social media mishaps. That’s partly why we’re honing in on the Veep debate.

That said, Politics and religion have been polarizing long before social media, so things may get heated. Please remember we are real people, including you of course. We may all get triggered, and that’s OK. We may say something we regret—we can apologize, forgive, and of course we can delete comments. There may be no take-backsies in impact, but there is in visibility :)

Our algorithms mimic how trust and conversation work IRL; however you like to have conversation in person, is probably the ideal way to have conversation here. If you’re empathetic here, fine. If there’s stuff you wouldn’t say in person, don’t say it here. If you want to troll—well, try out one of our Troll Bots, and feel free to post that.

On that note, the bots can be pretty helpful, so try them out and see if it takes your conversations in a new direction.

Known Bugs

We are in active development and there’s a bunch of stuff that is in the middle of being fixed, or even simply improved visually (like the bot promotion look and feel, or topic pages, etc). So sorry, forgive us, thank you, and we love you!

Here are some known bugs that may get in your way:

• Mobile topics—switch to landscape mode (instead of vertical)
• Groups aren’t yet really launched even though it seems like they are
• Sorting and group selection dropdowns sometimes disappear while mousing over
• Occasional posting time weirdness
• Occasional mobile weirdnesses

Please continue to submit feedback

We love all your feedback, seriously, hit that button and let us know.

Not just bugs—also preferences. Here are some requests we gotten and are in the pipeline:
- Various different ways of integrating posts and comments
- Differentiate read from unread content
- Inbox notifications for comments a few layers down
- etc.

Even if we already know it, it may change our priorities if everyone is aligned on wanting or disliking a particular thing.

Do I post too much here? . I like to keep it active, respond to everyone’s comments, etc, but I get nervous that I’m too dominate on the platform. How is it for y’all? And if you could just turn a knob to increase or decrease the Jordan-post-flow, would you adjust it in any direction? Or maybe there are other important frames you want to speak to that this doesn’t address?

The Relateful Company should embrace more job titles. We’re under-appreciating orange.

We’ve included the green critiques, like the classic:

What gets measured gets managed — even when it’s pointless to measure and manage it, and even if it harms the purpose of the organisation to do so - V. F. Ridgway, 1956

But we need to embrace more healthy competition, striving for excellence, even rankings.

one way we can do this is to make more liberal use of titles, and brag on people. @Valerie Daniel is the MANAGING DIRECTOR, and we should have her listed as such in emails and things

What else is healthy orange and how can we transclude it?
What do we already do that is already healthy orange?

Current Session "instructions" (Feb 26): Converse, and see if nudges happen. nudges 

We launched a system where the AI bots can automatically detect intervention points. We need you to make a bunch of comments and new posts to see if they'll engage. So this week we're asking you to engage a bunch, if you can!

It's a little rudimentary at the moment so sometimes you'll get multiple bots responding on multiple posts. We'd love your feedback on which ones you like, don't, when it seemed to miss the spot, anything else you notice. 

Thanks and love yall

J (and the UpTrust team)
p.s. this week I'm at an investor meeting so dara will be with you

# [Optional Zoom](https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86795216050?pwd=TllxSzYrTFFXTW5LRmg3WUQrT04vdz09) with Jordan and Dara at least, for faces, questions, help, etc:

Current Session "instructions" (Feb 26): Converse, and see if nudges happen. nudges 

We launched a system where the AI bots can automatically detect intervention points. We need you to make a bunch of comments and new posts to see if they'll engage. So this week we're asking you to engage a bunch, if you can!

It's a little rudimentary at the moment so sometimes you'll get multiple bots responding on multiple posts. We'd love your feedback on which ones you like, don't, when it seemed to miss the spot, anything else you notice. 

Thanks and love yall

J (and the UpTrust team)
p.s. this week I'm at an investor meeting so dara will be with you

# [Optional Zoom](https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86795216050?pwd=TllxSzYrTFFXTW5LRmg3WUQrT04vdz09) with Jordan and Dara at least, for faces, questions, help, etc:

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.

What kind of content are you enjoying? What do you want to engage with?