A new account opens straight into the feed. For your first three days, about one card in every twenty posts is a setup step. Each card is one step, each is optional, and a step you finish does not come back, nor one you skip on that device. The rings at the top of each card fill as you follow, reply and uptrust.
Where to find it: On your home page, between the posts. To hide them all, or bring them back, open your account menu and choose Hide “Make it yours” or Show “Make it yours”. Click your name at the bottom of the left sidebar, or on a phone, tap your picture at the top left.
The steps
- What do you want more of? Tap a few topics. Each tap follows the topic, and the posts below move.
- People and groups. Up to five, each with the reason we offer it. Follow or join, and their posts rise in your feed.
- Reply to a post. The card opens the post right above it.
- Uptrust someone on a topic you know them for.
- Let your AI write your intro. Pick Claude, ChatGPT or Grok, add UpTrust to it, and paste the sentence we give you. It writes your introduction and your open questions, which go up as asks. See Connect an AI assistant.
Following is not trust. When you know someone on a topic, you can uptrust them there, and that shapes what others see.
Quests and badges
Your account menu always has a Quest entry that takes you to your quest page, where you can keep earning badges.